2.  How to connect to API directly through your
Organization account. Api is a contract. A
promise to perform described services when
asked in specific ways.
 API access is the process of ensuring that calls
with authenticated logins are able to access the
APIs. API products are also a good way to control
access to a specific bundle of resources.
 Apigee API management solution empowers you
to allow or deny access to your APIs, by specific
IP addresses.
 Since API products are the central mechanism for
authorization and access control to your APIs,
Apigee helps provision API keys for them.

5.  The following are the prerequisites to use
Reports API.
 User account
 Auth Token
◦ Generating Auth Token
◦ Managing Auth Tokens
 Reporting Database

6.  There are four steps that are required to
access the API”s
 1. Create or Purchase a valid digital signing
certificate.
 2. Sign into the Developer Portal as an admin
user and get a set of credentials.
 3. Use the credentials you receive to create a
JSON Web Token (JWT).
 4. Use the JWT token to obtain the access
token that you must pass to every API call.

7.  User Account
 Users should have a valid login email address to use the API.
 Auth Token
 Authentication Token, here after referred as Auth Token, is a unique token that
authenticates the user to access the Account. This is a user-specific and
permanent token that need to be passed along with every Reports API request.

 Generating Auth Token
 Users can generate a Auth Token using one of the following mode. You can
generate it just once and use it for all your API calls.
 Browser Mode
 API Mode

 Browser Mode
 To generate Auth Token from your Browser, follow the steps given below.
 Login to your account.
 Now open a new tab in the same browser and then access the URL below.
 https://accounts.com/apiauthtoken/create?SCOPE=Reports/reportsapi

8.  Sample Response:
 The following is a sample response for a Auth
Token request.
 #
#Wed Jun 29 03:07:33 PST 2013
AUTHTOKEN=bad18eba1ff45jk7858b8ae88a
77fa30
RESULT=TRUE
 #COMME
NT
Auth Token generated date.
 AUTHTO
KEN
The permanent Auth Token (Alpha numeric value)
generated for API access.
 RESULT Value is TRUE if the Auth Token is generated
successfully.
Response Details:

9.  API Mode
 To generate Auth Token using API mode,
send an HTTPS POST request to Accounts
using the following URL format.
 URL Format:
 https://accounts.com/apiauthtoken/nb/creat
e?SCOPE=Reports/reportsapi
 Mandatory POST Parameters to be passed
along with this URL are:

10. Parameter Description
EMAIL_ID Specify your Login Email Address
PASSWORD Specify your Reports Password
(Note: You have to provide Application
Specific Password if you are using
Two Factor Authentications. Read the Note
below to know how to generate this)

11.  Note for users using Two Factor Authentication:
 If you have enabled Two Factor Authentication (TFA)
for your Account, then you need to specify
the Application Specific Password, instead of your
Reports account password, to generate the Auth
Token.
 The following are the steps to generate an
Application Specific Password for your Account.
 Login into Account.
 Two Factor Authentications. The Two Factor
Authentication section in the Settings page will open.
 Click Manage Application Specific Passwords button.

12.  https://developer.kindful.com/docs/direct-
access
 http://www.programmableweb.com/news/ho
w-to-manage-risk-losing-api-
access/analysis.
 https://developer.kindful.com/docs/direct-
access