Create API token
POST /api/admin/api-tokens
Create an API token of a specific type: one of client, admin, frontend.
Request
- application/json
Body
required
createApiTokenSchema
- MOD1
- MOD2
- MOD3
- MOD4
- expiresAt date-timeThe time when this token should expire. 
- type string requiredPossible values: Value must match regular expression ^[Aa][Dd][Mm][Ii][Nn]$An admin token. Must be the string "admin" (not case sensitive). 
- tokenName string requiredThe name of the token. 
- expiresAt date-timeThe time when this token should expire. 
- type string requiredPossible values: Value must match regular expression ^[Aa][Dd][Mm][Ii][Nn]$An admin token. Must be the string "admin" (not case sensitive). 
- username string deprecatedThe name of the token. This property was deprecated in v5. Use tokenNameinstead.
- expiresAt date-timeThe time when this token should expire. 
- type string requiredPossible values: Value must match regular expression ^([Cc][Ll][Ii][Ee][Nn][Tt]|[Ff][Rr][Oo][Nn][Tt][Ee][Nn][Dd])$A client or frontend token. Must be one of the strings "client" or "frontend" (not case sensitive). 
- environment stringThe environment that the token should be valid for. Defaults to "default" 
- project stringThe project that the token should be valid for. Defaults to "*" meaning every project. This property is mutually incompatible with the projectsproperty. If you specify one, you cannot specify the other.
- projects string[]A list of projects that the token should be valid for. This property is mutually incompatible with the projectproperty. If you specify one, you cannot specify the other.
- tokenName string requiredThe name of the token. 
- expiresAt date-timeThe time when this token should expire. 
- type string requiredPossible values: Value must match regular expression ^([Cc][Ll][Ii][Ee][Nn][Tt]|[Ff][Rr][Oo][Nn][Tt][Ee][Nn][Dd])$A client or frontend token. Must be one of the strings "client" or "frontend" (not case sensitive). 
- environment stringThe environment that the token should be valid for. Defaults to "default" 
- project stringThe project that the token should be valid for. Defaults to "*" meaning every project. This property is mutually incompatible with the projectsproperty. If you specify one, you cannot specify the other.
- projects string[]A list of projects that the token should be valid for. This property is mutually incompatible with the projectproperty. If you specify one, you cannot specify the other.
- username string deprecatedThe name of the token. This property was deprecated in v5. Use tokenNameinstead.
- 201
- 401
- 403
- 415
The resource was successfully created.
Response Headers
- location string- The location of the newly created resource. 
- application/json
- Schema
- Example (from schema)
Schema
- secret string requiredThe token used for authentication. 
- username string deprecatedThis property was deprecated in Unleash v5. Prefer the tokenNameproperty instead.
- tokenName string requiredA unique name for this particular token 
- type string requiredPossible values: [ client,admin,frontend]The type of API token 
- environment stringThe environment the token has access to. *if it has access to all environments.
- project string requiredThe project this token belongs to. 
- projects string[] requiredThe list of projects this token has access to. If the token has access to specific projects they will be listed here. If the token has access to all projects it will be represented as [*]
- expiresAt date-time nullableThe token's expiration date. NULL if the token doesn't have an expiration set. 
- createdAt date-time requiredWhen the token was created. 
- seenAt date-time nullableWhen the token was last seen/used to authenticate with. NULL if the token has not yet been used for authentication. 
- alias string nullableAlias is no longer in active use and will often be NULL. It's kept around as a way of allowing old proxy tokens created with the old metadata format to keep working. 
{
  "secret": "project:environment.xyzrandomstring",
  "tokenName": "some-user",
  "type": "client",
  "environment": "development",
  "project": "developerexperience",
  "projects": [
    "developerexperience",
    "enterprisegrowth"
  ],
  "expiresAt": "2023-04-19T08:15:14.000Z",
  "createdAt": "2023-04-19T08:15:14.000Z",
  "seenAt": "2023-04-19T08:15:14.000Z",
  "alias": "randomid-or-some-alias"
}
Authorization information is missing or invalid. Provide a valid API token as the authorization header, e.g. authorization:*.*.my-admin-token.
- application/json
- Schema
- Example (from schema)
Schema
- id stringThe ID of the error instance 
- name stringThe name of the error kind 
- message stringA description of what went wrong. 
{
  "id": "9c40958a-daac-400e-98fb-3bb438567008",
  "name": "AuthenticationRequired",
  "message": "You must log in to use Unleash. Your request had no authorization header, so we could not authorize you. Try logging in at /auth/simple/login."
}
The provided user credentials are valid, but the user does not have the necessary permissions to perform this operation
- application/json
- Schema
- Example (from schema)
Schema
- id stringThe ID of the error instance 
- name stringThe name of the error kind 
- message stringA description of what went wrong. 
{
  "id": "9c40958a-daac-400e-98fb-3bb438567008",
  "name": "NoAccessError",
  "message": "You need the \"UPDATE_ADDON\" permission to perform this action in the \"development\" environment."
}
The operation does not support request payloads of the provided type. Please ensure that you're using one of the listed payload types and that you have specified the right content type in the "content-type" header.
- application/json
- Schema
- Example (from schema)
Schema
- id stringThe ID of the error instance 
- name stringThe name of the error kind 
- message stringA description of what went wrong. 
{
  "id": "9c40958a-daac-400e-98fb-3bb438567008",
  "name": "ContentTypeerror",
  "message": "We do not accept the content-type you provided (application/xml). Try using one of the content-types we do accept instead (application/json) and make sure the body is in the corresponding format."
}