Developer Tokens

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 can not be refreshed automatically.

Developer tokens are always authenticated as the developer's user account, not any other user. This is different from most of the other authentication methods.

Create Developer Token

To create a Developer Token for an application:

• Go to the Box developer console and select the application to create a Developer Token for.
• From the sidebar select "Configuration".
• In the "Developer Token" section select "Generate Developer Token".

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]"

Most of our SDKs can be initialized with a Developer Token as well to create a basic API client.

BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("YOUR-DEVELOPER-TOKEN");

from boxsdk import Client, OAuth2

auth = OAuth2(
    client_id='YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
    client_secret='YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
    access_token='DEVELOPER_TOKEN_GOES_HERE',
)
client = Client(auth)
me = client.user().get()
print('My user ID is {0}'.format(me.id))

var BoxSDK = require('box-node-sdk');
var sdk = new BoxSDK({
	clientID: 'YOUR-CLIENT-ID',
	clientSecret: 'YOUR-CLIENT_SECRET'
});

var client = sdk.getBasicClient('YOUR-DEVELOPER-TOKEN');