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Client Credentials Token

Operations

The Client Credentials Token resource

Fields
access_tokentext

Access token to be used when calling "create user" endpoint. Valid for 12 hours.

token_typetext

Type (bearer)

expires_ininteger

Expiry time in seconds

scopetext

Scope (transfers)

Client Credentials Token Object
{
  "access_token": "ba8k1234-00f2-475a-60d8-6g45377b4062",
  "token_type":"bearer",
  "expires_in": 43199,
  "expires_at": "2025-04-11T03:43:28.148Z",
  "scope":"transfers"
}

Retrieve a client credentials token

POST /oauth/token

Obtain access_token based on your API client credentials.

Request

Use Basic Authentication with your api-client-id/api-client-secret as the username/password. The body of the request must be sent as x-www-form-urlencoded.

grant_typetext

"client_credentials"

Response

Returns a client credentials token object

Example Request
curl \
  https://api.sandbox.transferwise.tech/oauth/token \
  -u '<client id>:<client secret>' \
  -d 'grant_type=client_credentials'