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A Developer Token is an Access Token available to developers during development and testing. These tokens are short lived, as they expire after 60 minutes, and cannot be refreshed programmatically.

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Create Developer Token

To create a Developer Token for an application:
  • Navigate to the Box Developer Console and select the application to create a Developer Token for.
  • Select the Configuration tab.
  • Under Developer Token, select Generate Developer Token.
You can also generate a Developer Token directly from view, using the menu available for each app.
Generating a Developer Token

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Using Developer Token

A Developer Token can be used like any Access Token in the Authorization header of an API call. 
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users/me \
    -H "authorization: Bearer [DEVELOPER_TOKEN]"
A Developer Token is associated with the the user that is logged in to the Developer Console when the token is generated.
Our SDKs can be initialized with a Developer Token to create a basic API client. 
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users/me \
    -H "authorization: Bearer [DEVELOPER_TOKEN]"
Developer tokens should not be used in production environmentsDeveloper Tokens should only be used for development or testing purposes.
When you explicitly revoke a developer token for a given app via the Developer console, all webhooks created by that application get deleted.

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Using SDKs and Developer Tokens

To learn more about Developer Tokens for each SDK head over to: