Passing authentication

The user needs to perform several easy steps to pass authentication:

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

Request
Response

POST /api/2.0/authentication.json HTTP/1.1
Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

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

Please note, that you have to enter your own portal address to the Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com line instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com address.

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

In case authentication is successful, a token which will look like sdjhfskjdhkqy739459234 will be received.
Use this token every time you call API methods inserting it to the Authorization HTTP header:

Sample API Request:
```
GET /api/2.0/people/@self.json HTTP/1.1
Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com
Accept: application/json
Authorization: sdjhfskjdhkqy739459234
```
Please note, that you have to enter your own portal address to the Host: yourportal.onlyoffice.com line instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com address.

Authentication request examples

C#
cURL

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

Please note, that you have to enter your own portal address instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com address.

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

Please note, that you have to enter your own portal address instead of yourportal.onlyoffice.com address.

Authentication request examples​

Authentication request examples