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title: "Get Access Token"
slug: "get-access-token"
updated: 2025-01-13T09:02:07Z
published: 2025-06-23T14:52:52Z
canonical: "docs.plainid.io/get-access-token"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.plainid.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get Access Token

Post/api/1.0/api-key/token

This API enables users to get an Access Token for API Client Credentials associated with a particular Client. PlainID uses the API Client Credentials to support secure access to Management using an OAuth Client Credential flow.

### Notice

 Accessing the Policy Management APIs is through a dedicated domain/URL according to your PlainID Tenant Location:   

`https://api.{REGION}.plainid.io`
  
   

**United States (US)** -
`https://api.us1.plainid.io`   
 **Canada (US)** -
`https://api.ca1.plainid.io`   
 **Europe (US)** -
`https://api.eu1.plainid.io`  

Replace`{REGION}` with your PlainID Tenant region (e.g. us1, eu1, ca1, etc.).

  

### cURL Sample Guidelines

In order for the relevant parameters to appear in the cURL sample, you can input the values in the interactive API console on the right. They will then appear in the cURL sample on the bottom of the page in the correct format.

      
    

Body parameters<select class='api-response-data' aria-label='Media type'><option value='bb89cf35-662e-41d7-92f7-2bfabb1adb10'>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</option>
</select><select class='select-example' aria-label='Media type'><option value='ba2fdce3-af81-44b3-9a71-495e1d0c4f6c'>Sample Get token</option>
</select>Sample Get token

```
{
  "grant_type": "client_credentials",
  "client_id": "PVNTYSTFE2L9R4OJ9YY5",
  "client_secret": "2TdbqLnCyUAAKhj6AcFVuSDDkXRACTYdabcd"
}
```

object  grant_typestring    

OAuth grant type, always set to 'client_credentials'

Valid values[
  "client_credentials"
]
client_idstring    

Client ID associated with the API Client Credentials

client_secretstring    

Client Secret associated with the API Client Credentials

Responses200

Successful Operation

<select class='api-response-data' aria-label='Media type'><option value='4c77fbb4-4331-432b-a608-17b39ca87d8d'>application/json</option>
</select>object  access_tokenstring    

OAuth Access Token

token_typestring    

Token Type as OAuth standard, always set to 'Bearer'.

ExampleBearer
expires_ininteger  (long)    

Token Duration in seconds.

Example86400

401

Unauthorized