https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-I-find-my-ACCESS-TOKEN-for-the-REST-API/m-p/76416#M15591 <P>How to I find my ACCESS_TOKEN to use the REST API?</P> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:37:26 GMT tashburn 2012-10-01T15:37:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-I-find-my-ACCESS-TOKEN-for-the-REST-API/m-p/76416#M15591 <P>How to I find my ACCESS_TOKEN to use the REST API?</P> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:37:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-I-find-my-ACCESS-TOKEN-for-the-REST-API/m-p/76416#M15591 tashburn 2012-10-01T15:37:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-I-find-my-ACCESS-TOKEN-for-the-REST-API/m-p/76417#M15592 <P>@tashburn, I guessing your tying to use the HTTP Header method of authenticating with Splunkd. Your access-token is your session key which can be used against the API, which can be retieved from the /services/auth/login and will be a long string of hexadecimal chars. </P> <P><CODE></CODE><PRE><CODE><BR /> curl -k -u &lt;user&gt;:&lt;passw&gt; <A href="https://&lt;splunkd&gt;:8089/services/auth/login" target="test_blank">https://&lt;splunkd&gt;:8089/services/auth/login</A> \ -d username=&lt;user&gt; -d password=&lt;passw&gt; <BR /> </CODE></PRE></P> <P><CODE></CODE><PRE><CODE><BR /> &lt;response&gt;<BR /> &lt;sessionKey&gt;##someHexdecimalNumber##&lt;/sessionKey&gt;<BR /> &lt;/response&gt;<BR /> </CODE></PRE></P> <P>Additional info:</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/RESTAPI/RESTaccess#auth.2Flogin">auth/login</A></P> <P><A href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAADP8">REST API Overview - Auth Methods</A></P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/RESTAPI/RESTusing#Authentication">Authentication</A></P> <P>Hope this helps.</P> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:52:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-I-find-my-ACCESS-TOKEN-for-the-REST-API/m-p/76417#M15592 bmacias84 2012-10-01T21:52:11Z