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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(link takes you to an external page) 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

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Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties
account_sidSID<AC>Optional
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_tokenstringOptional
PII MTL: 0 days

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

date_createdstring<date-time>Optional
Not PII

The date and time in UTC when the resource was created specified in ISO 8601(link takes you to an external page) format.

date_updatedstring<date-time>Optional
Not PII

The date and time in GMT when the resource was last updated specified in ISO 8601(link takes you to an external page) format.

urlstring<uri>Optional
Not PII

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

Update an AuthTokenPromotion resource

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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 TokenLink to code sample: Promote the Secondary Auth Token
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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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}