Authentication

A valid access token is required for API Authorization.

After you have created an Application and it is subscribed to an API Product, you are ready to authenticate and generate an access token.

Authentication Guide

See the full Authentication Guide for a complete overview, or follow the clickable diagram below for guidance.

Choosing a grant type

Choosing the appropriate grant type for your use case is straight forward. Client Credentials is the easiest to implement but lacks a user context. In most case you will choose both Authentication Code and Client Credentials when setting up your application. This way you can conduct testing of endpoints easily in a tool such as Postman but utilize Authentication Code to have a user context in your application.

Staging environment

The Authentication Guide assumes production environments. If you need to authenticate with the Trimble Identity staging environment please note there is a different base url for staging.

https://stage.id.trimblecloud.com