Obtain Access Token with Username and Password

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No longer supported

This method of authenticating is no longer supported. Authentication should be done by using the authorization grant type. See the Authentication guide for more information.

This example request illustrates how to obtain an access token using a user's username and password. Note that this mechanism is available only to approved developer keys.

Request

POST /cis-web/oauth2/v3/token
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

password=WhereIsPapa%3F&grant_type=password&client_id=PHNQ-DY47-PDAG-8NB9-XJD7-JE4J-R0W5-NK3P&username=kbear23

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
X-processing-time: 3
Vary: Accept,Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding,Expect
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1836 10:00:00 GMT-5
Cache-control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Transfer-encoding: chunked

{
  "access_token" : "2YoTnFdFEjr1zCsicMWpAA",
  "token_type" : "family_search"
}