To make scheduled frequent calls for a production environment, you have to build a process at your backend that will provide you with a token automatically (and thus simulate a non-expiring token).
Prerequisites
Register Machine-to-Machine Applications.
Get access tokens
To ask Auth0 for a Management API v2 token, perform a POST operation to the https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token endpoint, using the credentials of the Machine-to-Machine Application you created in the prerequisite step.
The payload should be in the following format:
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curl --request POST \ --url 'https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token' \ --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \ --data grant_type=client_credentials \ --data 'client_id={yourClientId}' \ --data 'client_secret={yourClientSecret}' \ --data 'audience=https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/'Was this helpful?
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var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token");var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");request.AddParameter("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret=%7ByourClientSecret%7D&audience=https%3A%2F%2F{yourDomain}%2Fapi%2Fv2%2F", ParameterType.RequestBody);IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);Was this helpful?
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package mainimport ("fmt""strings""net/http""io/ioutil")func main() {url := "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token"payload := strings.NewReader("grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret=%7ByourClientSecret%7D&audience=https%3A%2F%2F{yourDomain}%2Fapi%2Fv2%2F")req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)defer res.Body.Close()body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)fmt.Println(res)fmt.Println(string(body))}Was this helpful?
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HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token") .header("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") .body("grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret=%7ByourClientSecret%7D&audience=https%3A%2F%2F{yourDomain}%2Fapi%2Fv2%2F") .asString();Was this helpful?
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var axios = require("axios").default;var options = { method: 'POST', url: 'https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token', headers: {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}, data: new URLSearchParams({ grant_type: 'client_credentials', client_id: '{yourClientId}', client_secret: '{yourClientSecret}', audience: 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/' })};axios.request(options).then(function (response) { console.log(response.data);}).catch(function (error) { console.error(error);});Was this helpful?
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"content-type": @"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" };NSMutableData *postData = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithData:[@"grant_type=client_credentials" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];[postData appendData:[@"&client_id={yourClientId}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];[postData appendData:[@"&client_secret={yourClientSecret}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];[postData appendData:[@"&audience=https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:10.0];[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];[request setHTTPBody:postData];NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { if (error) { NSLog(@"%@", error); } else { NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response; NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse); } }];[dataTask resume];Was this helpful?
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$curl = curl_init();curl_setopt_array($curl, [ CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST", CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret=%7ByourClientSecret%7D&audience=https%3A%2F%2F{yourDomain}%2Fapi%2Fv2%2F", CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [ "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ],]);$response = curl_exec($curl);$err = curl_error($curl);curl_close($curl);if ($err) { echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;} else { echo $response;}Was this helpful?
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import http.clientconn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")payload = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret=%7ByourClientSecret%7D&audience=https%3A%2F%2F{yourDomain}%2Fapi%2Fv2%2F"headers = { 'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }conn.request("POST", "/{yourDomain}/oauth/token", payload, headers)res = conn.getresponse()data = res.read()print(data.decode("utf-8"))require 'uri'require 'net/http'require 'openssl'url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token")http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)http.use_ssl = truehttp.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONErequest = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)request["content-type"] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'request.body = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={yourClientId}&client_secret=%7ByourClientSecret%7D&audience=https%3A%2F%2F{yourDomain}%2Fapi%2Fv2%2F"response = http.request(request)puts response.read_bodyWas this helpful?
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import Foundationlet headers = ["content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]let postData = NSMutableData(data: "grant_type=client_credentials".data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!)postData.append("&client_id={yourClientId}".data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!)postData.append("&client_secret={yourClientSecret}".data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!)postData.append("&audience=https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/".data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!)let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://{yourDomain}/oauth/token")! as URL, cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy, timeoutInterval: 10.0)request.httpMethod = "POST"request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headersrequest.httpBody = postData as Datalet session = URLSession.sharedlet dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in if (error != nil) { print(error) } else { let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse print(httpResponse) }})dataTask.resume()Was this helpful?
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Remember to update `{yourClientSecret}` with the client secret in the Settings tab of your Application.
The request parameters are:
| Request Parameter | Description |
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| grant_type | Denotes which OAuth 2.0 flow you want to run. For machine to machine communication use the value client_credentials. |
| client_id | This is the value of the Client ID field of the Machine-to-Machine Application you created. You can find it on the Settings tab of your Application. |
| client_secret | This is the value of the Client Secret field of the Machine-to-Machine Application you created. You can find it at the Settings tab of your Application. |
| audience | This is the value of the Identifier field of the Auth0 Management API. You can find it at the Settings tab of the API. |
Use the update:client_grants and create:client_grants scopes with only high-privileged applications, as they allow the client to grant further permissions to itself.
The response will contain a signed JWT, an expiration time, the scopes granted, and the token type.
{ "access_token": "eyJ...Ggg", "expires_in": 86400, "scope": "read:clients create:clients read:client_keys", "token_type": "Bearer"}Was this helpful?
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From the above, we can see that our Access Token will expire in 24 hours (86400 seconds), it has been authorized to read and create applications, and it is a Bearer Access Token.
Use Auth0's Node.js client library
As an alternative to making HTTP calls, you can use the node-auth0 library to automatically obtain tokens for the Management API.
Use access tokens
To use this token, include it in the Authorization header of your request.
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curl --request POST \ --url http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D \ --header 'authorization: Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}' \ --header 'content-type: application/json'Was this helpful?
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var client = new RestClient("http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D");var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}");IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);Was this helpful?
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package mainimport ("fmt""net/http""io/ioutil")func main() {url := "http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D"req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}")res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)defer res.Body.Close()body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)fmt.Println(res)fmt.Println(string(body))}Was this helpful?
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HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D") .header("content-type", "application/json") .header("authorization", "Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}") .asString();Was this helpful?
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var axios = require("axios").default;var options = { method: 'POST', url: 'http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D', headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json', authorization: 'Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}' }};axios.request(options).then(function (response) { console.log(response.data);}).catch(function (error) { console.error(error);});Was this helpful?
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What is Microsoft Dataverse#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"content-type": @"application/json", @"authorization": @"Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}" };NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:10.0];[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { if (error) { NSLog(@"%@", error); } else { NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response; NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse); } }];[dataTask resume];Was this helpful?
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$curl = curl_init();curl_setopt_array($curl, [ CURLOPT_URL => "http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST", CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [ "authorization: Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}", "content-type: application/json" ],]);$response = curl_exec($curl);$err = curl_error($curl);curl_close($curl);if ($err) { echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;} else { echo $response;}Was this helpful?
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import http.clientconn = http.client.HTTPConnection("")headers = { 'content-type': "application/json", 'authorization': "Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}" }conn.request("POST", "%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D", headers=headers)res = conn.getresponse()data = res.read()print(data.decode("utf-8"))Was this helpful?
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require 'uri'require 'net/http'url = URI("http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D")http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)request["content-type"] = 'application/json'request["authorization"] = 'Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}'response = http.request(request)puts response.read_bodyWas this helpful?
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import Foundationlet headers = [ "content-type": "application/json", "authorization": "Bearer {yourMgmtApiAccessToken}"]let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http:///%7BmgmtApiEndpoint%7D")! as URL, cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy, timeoutInterval: 10.0)request.httpMethod = "POST"request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headerslet session = URLSession.sharedlet dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in if (error != nil) { print(error) } else { let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse print(httpResponse) }})dataTask.resume()Was this helpful?
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For example, in order to Get all applications use the following:
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curl --request GET \ --url 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients' \ --header 'authorization: Bearer {yourAccessToken}' \ --header 'content-type: application/json'Was this helpful?
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var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients");var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer {yourAccessToken}");IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);Was this helpful?
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package mainimport ("fmt""net/http""io/ioutil")func main() {url := "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients"req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer {yourAccessToken}")res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)defer res.Body.Close()body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)fmt.Println(res)fmt.Println(string(body))}Was this helpful?
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HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients") .header("content-type", "application/json") .header("authorization", "Bearer {yourAccessToken}") .asString();Was this helpful?
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var axios = require("axios").default;var options = { method: 'GET', url: 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients', headers: {'content-type': 'application/json', authorization: 'Bearer {yourAccessToken}'}};axios.request(options).then(function (response) { console.log(response.data);}).catch(function (error) { console.error(error);});Was this helpful?
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"content-type": @"application/json", @"authorization": @"Bearer {yourAccessToken}" };NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:10.0];[request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) { if (error) { NSLog(@"%@", error); } else { NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response; NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse); } }];[dataTask resume];Was this helpful?
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$curl = curl_init();curl_setopt_array($curl, [ CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET", CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [ "authorization: Bearer {yourAccessToken}", "content-type: application/json" ],]);$response = curl_exec($curl);$err = curl_error($curl);curl_close($curl);if ($err) { echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;} else { echo $response;}Was this helpful?
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import http.clientconn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")headers = { 'content-type': "application/json", 'authorization': "Bearer {yourAccessToken}" }conn.request("GET", "/{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients", headers=headers)res = conn.getresponse()data = res.read()print(data.decode("utf-8"))Was this helpful?
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require 'uri'require 'net/http'require 'openssl'url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients")http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)http.use_ssl = truehttp.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONErequest = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)request["content-type"] = 'application/json'request["authorization"] = 'Bearer {yourAccessToken}'response = http.request(request)puts response.read_bodyWas this helpful?
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import Foundationlet headers = [ "content-type": "application/json", "authorization": "Bearer {yourAccessToken}"]let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/clients")! as URL, cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy, timeoutInterval: 10.0)request.httpMethod = "GET"request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headerslet session = URLSession.sharedlet dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in if (error != nil) { print(error) } else { let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse print(httpResponse) }})dataTask.resume()Was this helpful?
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You can get the curl command for each endpoint from the Management API v2 Explorer. Go to the endpoint you want to call, and click the get curl command link at the Test this endpoint section.
Example: Python implementation
This python script gets a Management API v2 Access Token, uses it to call the Get all applications endpoint, and prints the response in the console.
Before you run it make sure that the following variables hold valid values:
AUDIENCE: The Identifier of theAuth0 Management API. You can find it at the Settings tab of the API.DOMAIN: The Domain of the Machine-to-Machine Application you created.CLIENT_ID: The Client ID of the Machine to Machine Application you created.CLIENT_SECRET: The Client Secret of the Machine-to-Machine Application you created.
def main(): import json, requests from requests.exceptions import RequestException, HTTPError, URLRequired # Configuration Values domain = 'YOUR_DOMAIN' audience = f'https://{domain}/api/v2/' client_id = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID' client_secret = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET' grant_type = "client_credentials" # OAuth 2.0 flow to use # Get an Access Token from Auth0 base_url = f"https://{domain}" payload = { 'grant_type': grant_type, 'client_id': client_id, 'client_secret': client_secret, 'audience': audience } response = requests.post(f'{base_url}/oauth/token', data=payload) oauth = response.json() access_token = oauth.get('access_token') # Add the token to the Authorization header of the request headers = { 'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' } # Get all Applications using the token try: res = requests.get(f'{base_url}/api/v2/clients', headers=headers) print(res.json()) except HTTPError as e: print(f'HTTPError: {str(e.code)} {str(e.reason)}') except URLRequired as e: print(f'URLRequired: {str(e.reason)}') except RequestException as e: print(f'RequestException: {e}') except Exception as e: print(f'Generic Exception: {e}')# Standard boilerplate to call the main() function.if __name__ == '__main__': main()Was this helpful?
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Learn more
- Get Management API Access Tokens for Testing
- Get Management API Access Tokens for Single-Page Applications
- Applications in Auth0
