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I am having an issue in that I am able to authenticate into my instance's Looker API endpoint (:19999), but on subsequent requests to pull data I get failed auth message.

How does Looker know then that I am authenticated if I'm not passing the client/secret keys on subsequent requests?

Laurel
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Looker's API authentication endpoint returns an access token to use on subsequent API requests. Access tokens expire after 1 hour, at which point a new access token must be obtained.

Example:

$ curl -X POST "https://mylookerhost:19999/api/3.0/login?client_id=myclientid&client_secret=myclientsecret
{"access_token":"someaccesstoken","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":3600}

someaccesstoken is then passed as a header on each API call:

$ curl --header "Authorization: token someaccesstoken" https://mylookerhost:19999/api/3.0/user

Or as a URL parameter:

$ curl https://mylookerhost:19999/api/3.0/user?access_token=someaccesstoken
Nate Pickens
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