API authentication
login
Overview
This method has to be called before any other, to retrieve an authentication token that allows the other API calls to be authorized.
This method requires an username and password to be passed, and gives you an authentication token for the current user.
The authentication token needs to be passed as a HTTP authorization header in the form:
Authorization: Token token=<your-authentication-token>
Request
- endpoint
- /api/v1/login.[format]
- http method
- GET
format must be either json or xml
Required Parameters
None
Optional Parameters
None
Response
Response is a list of all the entities visible by the user. Each entry has the following attributes:
- auth_token
- authorization token for the current user
This is a sample response in JSON format:
{"auth_token": "your-authentication-token"}
Examples
In each sample below, you have to substitute values between angular brackets (< and >) with the correct input data.
cUrl
curl -u email@domain.com:password https://www.myo.io/api/v1/login.json
Ruby (with rest_client)
require 'rest_client'
RestClient::Request.new(:method => "get", :url => 'https://www.myo.io/api/v1/login.json', :user => "email@domain.com", :password => "password", :headers => { :accept => :json, :content_type => :json}).execute