How to Authenticate

Generate a token

The following steps explain how to generate a PAT to authenticate GoDaddy API calls.

1. Sign in to the Personal Access Token page.
2. Click + Generate Token.
3. In the Generate personal access token dialog, complete the following fields:

   Field	Description	Note
   Name	Name for the token.
   Expiration	Number of days until the token expires.
   Scopes	Scopes for the token.	Go to PAT scopes to see the available scopes.

4. Click Generate Token.

Store your token securely

After generating the token, it displays once. You can't retrieve it again from the Personal Access Token page and you should store it in secure storage immediately. Don't commit it to source control, check it into a repo, or paste it into chat.

1. In the Copy your new token dialog, click the copy icon.
2. Save the token in a password manager, secrets manager, or your application's secure credential store.
3. Load the token at runtime when you need it as a local script in a shell session or as a secret in a secrets store or CI/CD environment variable:

export GODADDY_PAT="<GODADDY_PAT>"

Use a token

The following steps explain how to use a PAT to authenticate GoDaddy API calls.

• Add the header to every request:

Authorization: Bearer ${GODADDY_PAT}

Revoke a token

The following steps explain how to revoke a PAT.

1. Sign in to the Personal Access Token page.
2. Next to the token you want to revoke, click the trash icon.
3. In the Revoke token? dialog, click Revoke Token.