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POST
/
oauth
/
token
Create an access token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://app.crewai.com/oauth/token \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data grant_type=client_credentials
import requests

url = "https://app.crewai.com/oauth/token"

payload = { "grant_type": "client_credentials" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Basic <encoded-value>',
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },
  body: new URLSearchParams({grant_type: 'client_credentials'})
};

fetch('https://app.crewai.com/oauth/token', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.crewai.com/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",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>",
    "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;
}
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.crewai.com/oauth/token"

	payload := strings.NewReader("grant_type=client_credentials")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.crewai.com/oauth/token")
  .header("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  .body("grant_type=client_credentials")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.crewai.com/oauth/token")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Basic <encoded-value>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
request.body = "grant_type=client_credentials"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "access_token": "sat_abc123",
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 3600
}
{
  "error": "unsupported_grant_type",
  "error_description": "grant_type must be client_credentials."
}
{
  "error": "invalid_client",
  "error_description": "Client authentication failed."
}
{
  "error": "temporarily_unavailable",
  "error_description": "Too many token requests. Cache access tokens until they expire and retry later."
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Authenticate with HTTP Basic auth using the service account client_id as the username and client_secret as the password. The Authorization header value is Basic <base64(client_id:client_secret)>.

Body

application/x-www-form-urlencoded
grant_type
enum<string>
required
Available options:
client_credentials
Example:

"client_credentials"

Response

OK

access_token
string
required
Example:

"sat_abc123"

token_type
enum<string>
required
Available options:
Bearer
Example:

"Bearer"

expires_in
integer
required
Example:

3600