Submits authentication credentials to authenticate a user account. Credentials can either be passed in the HTTP Authorization header (in the format "user username:password") in which case the body can be omitted, or within a Credentials resource.
Note: This call is not rate-limited.
(required)
Credentials resource containing the credentials for the authenticating user account.
(optional)
Only available for JSON format. If supplied, the response will use JSONP format with a callback of the given name.
application/json or application/xml
Returns an authentication token if authentication succeeds. The client application should store the authentication token and submit it with subsequent API calls. The authentication token expires 30 minutes after it is last used. Returns '401 Unauthorized' and an error message if authentication fails.
application/json, application/javascript (JSONP), application/xml or text/csv as requested
POST /authentication_credentials
JSON body:
{
"Username": "me",
"Password": "my_password"
}
XML body:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Credentials xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Username>me</Username>
<Password>my_password</Password>
</Credentials>
JSON body: "722fa0c702f42b68e2fdb771a80caed" XML body: <?xml version="1.0"?> <string>722fa0c702f42b68e2fdb771a80caed</string> CSV body: 722fa0c702f42b68e2fdb771a80caed