Developer Tokens
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 cannot be refreshed programmatically.
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.
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]"
Our SDKs can be initialized with a Developer Token to create a basic API client.
.NET
var config = new BoxConfigBuilder("YOUR_CLIENT_ID", "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET", new Uri("http://localhost")).Build();
var session = new OAuthSession("YOUR_DEVELOPER_TOKEN", "N/A", 3600, "bearer");
var client = new BoxClient(config, session);Java
BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("YOUR-DEVELOPER-TOKEN");Python
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(f'My user ID is {me.id}')Node
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');TypeScript (Beta)
const { BoxClient } = require('box-typescript-sdk-gen/lib/client.generated.js');
const {
BoxDeveloperTokenAuth,
} = require('box-typescript-sdk-gen/lib/developerTokenAuth.generated.js');
const auth = new BoxDeveloperTokenAuth({ token: 'DEVELOPER_TOKEN_GOES_HERE' });
const client = new BoxClient({ auth });
const me = await client.users.getUserMe();
console.log(`My user ID is ${me.id}`);Python (Beta)
from box_sdk_gen.client import BoxClient
from box_sdk_gen.developer_token_auth import BoxDeveloperTokenAuth
auth = BoxDeveloperTokenAuth(token='DEVELOPER_TOKEN_GOES_HERE')
client = BoxClient(auth=auth)
me = client.users.get_user_me()
print(f'My user ID is {me.id}')Using SDKs and Developer Tokens
To learn more about Developer Tokens for each SDK head over to: