Personal access tokens

Follow these steps to generate a PAT and use it to authorize your DocSpace account:

1. Send a POST request containing the userName and password parameters to the api/2.0/authentication address:

   Request

   POST /api/2.0/authentication HTTP/1.1
   Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com
   Content-Type: application/json
   Accept: application/json
   
   {
       "userName": "yourusername",
       "password": "yourpassword"
   }

   note

   You have to enter your own portal address to the Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com line instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com address. For security purposes, store your username and password in env variables and reference them in the request.

   Response

   HTTP/1.1 201 Created
   Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
   {
       "count": 1,
       "response": {
           "token": "sdjhfskjdhkqy739459234",
           "expires": "2010-07-07T17:06:03.5845502+03:00"
       },
       "status": 0,
       "statusCode": 201
   }

2. If authentication is successful, you will receive an API response containing a token with its lifetime.

3. Use this token every time you call API methods inserting it to the Authorization HTTP header:

   Example API Request:

   GET /api/2.0/people/@self HTTP/1.1
   Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com
   Accept: application/json
   Authorization: Bearer sdjhfskjdhkqy739459234

   note

   You have to enter your own portal address to the Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com line instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com address.

Authentication request examples

Node.js

const axios = require("axios");

async function authenticate() {
  try {
    const response = await axios.post("https://yourportal.onlyoffice.com/api/2.0/authentication", {
      userName: "yourusername",
      password: "yourpassword"
    }, {
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
      }
    });

    console.log(response.data);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Authentication failed:", error.response?.data || error.message);
  }
}

authenticate();

Python

import requests

url = "https://yourportal.onlyoffice.com/api/2.0/authentication"

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

data = {
    "userName": "yourusername",
    "password": "yourpassword"
}

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

print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())

C#

var request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("https://yourportal.onlyoffice.com/api/2.0/authentication");
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";

var body = "{\"userName\":\"yourusername\",\"password\":\"yourpassword\"}";
var data = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(body);

request.ContentLength = data.Length;
using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
    stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
}

var response = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
var responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

cURL

curl --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"userName\":\"yourusername\",\"password\":\"yourpassword\"}" "https://yourportal.onlyoffice.com/api/2.0/authentication"

note

You have to enter your own portal address, username and password instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com, yourusername and yourpassword respectively.