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API Authentication

Version 1 supports two forms of authentication: basic authentication over HTTPS, and token authentication.

When using basic authentication, use your PhoneGap Build credentials (username and password) to authenticate each request:

$ curl -u andrew.lunny@adobe.com https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/me
{
  "created_at":"2010-10-12T19:10:16Z",
  "updated_at":"2010-11-29T19:58:00Z",
  "username":"alunny",
  "email":"andrew.lunny@nitobi.com"
}

To use token authentication, use basic authentication to post to /token with your request, and the token returns in the response:

$ curl -u andrew.lunny@adobe.com -X POST -d "" https://build.phonegap.com/token
{
  "token":"ASTRINGTOKEN"
}

Then pass this token as a parameter for any call that you make:

$ curl https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/me?auth_token=ASTRINGTOKEN
{
  "username":"alunny",
  "email":"andrew.lunny@adobe.com"
}

Both forms of authentication are supported. All unauthenticated requests return a 401 (unauthorized) status code.

All the examples documented here use token authentication for clarity.

NOTE: Users who registered using Github authentication may not have PhoneGap Build credentials, and therefore may not be able to use basic authentication. To retrieve an authententication token for your Github-linked account, go to Edit Account, on the top right of the site's navigation bar. Find the Authentication Tokens section, where you can obtain, as well as create, reset, or delete your token. Note that resetting or deleting a token invalidates any further requests using the previous token.

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