Authentication Tokens

An authorization token is required for every API call. For OpenBox Actions, you generally don't need to worry about auth tokens, since the URL's given to you by the Box Parameters generally have the auth tokens already specified in them. Auth tokens are useful only if you want to perform API methods on the file other than overwrite, copy, and share. Those three actions can be done with the pre-formed URL's given in Box Parameters. You can learn more about the other things you can do with a file and an auth token over at our external API documentation.

There are two types of authentication tokens: user authentication tokens and file authentication tokens. User auth tokens are obtained through our traditional ticket authentication process, work for all files of a user and never expire. File auth tokens are given to OpenBox services each time an action is executed on a specific file, work only for the specific file that the action was performed on, and expire after 24 hours.

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