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REST API: Auth Token


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Warning

If you are using Services or Functions(Classic) and have included your auth token directly instead of using a variable, you must wait for 1 minute for the update of your auth token to propagate. Otherwise, those functions and services will fail with a 403 Forbidden error.

Twilio uses the Account SID and Auth Token to authenticate API requests. The Auth Token can be rotated in the Console or with this API. There are two related endpoints, one to create or delete the secondary Auth Token and this one to promote the secondary Auth Token.


Auth Token properties

Property nameTypePIIDescription
account_sidSID<AC>
Not PII

The SID of the Account that the secondary Auth Token was created for.

Pattern: ^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

auth_tokenstring
PII MTL: 0 days

The promoted Auth Token that must be used to authenticate future API requests.


date_createdstring<date-time>

The date and time in UTC when the resource was created specified in ISO 8601 format.


date_updatedstring<date-time>

The date and time in GMT when the resource was last updated specified in ISO 8601 format.


urlstring<uri>

The URI for this resource, relative to https://accounts.twilio.com


Update an AuthTokenPromotion resource

POST https://accounts.twilio.com/v1/AuthTokens/Promote

This action will delete the current primary Auth Token, and promote the secondary Auth Token to primary.

Promote the Secondary Auth Token

Node.js
Python
C#
Java
Go
PHP
Ruby
twilio-cli
curl

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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
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const twilio = require("twilio"); // Or, for ESM: import twilio from "twilio";
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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
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const client = twilio(accountSid, authToken);
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async function updateAuthTokenPromotion() {
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const authTokenPromotion = await client.accounts.v1
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.authTokenPromotion()
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.update();
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console.log(authTokenPromotion.accountSid);
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}
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updateAuthTokenPromotion();

Output

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{
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"account_sid": "ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
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"auth_token": "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb",
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"date_created": "2015-07-31T04:00:00Z",
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"date_updated": "2015-07-31T04:00:00Z",
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"url": "https://accounts.twilio.com/v1/AuthTokens/Promote"
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}


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