RESTful authentication

Before using an Agora RESTful API, you need to setup REST authentication.

Available REST authentication methods are:

Basic HTTP authentication

You need to generate a Base64-encoded credential with the Customer ID and Customer Secret provided by Agora and pass the credential to the Authorization parameter in the request header.

Implement authentication on the server; otherwise, you may encounter the risk of data leakage.

Implement Basic HTTP authentication

To generate a set of Customer ID and Customer Secret, do the following:

In Agora Console, click the account name in the top right corner, and click RESTful API from the drop-down list to enter the RESTful API page.
Click Add a secret, and click OK. A set of Customer ID and Customer Secret is generated.
Click Download in the Customer Secret column. Read the pop-up window carefully, and save the downloaded key_and_secret.txt file in a secure location.
Use the Customer ID (key) and Customer Secret (secret) to generate a Base64-encoded credential, and pass the Base64-encoded credential to the Authorization parameter in the HTTP request header.

You can download the Customer Secret from Agora Console only once. Be sure to keep it secure.

Basic authentication sample code

The following sample codes implement basic HTTP authentication and send a request with the Server RESTful API to get the basic information of all current Agora projects.

Java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.util.Base64;
// HTTP basic authentication example in Java using the <Vg k="VSDK" /> Server RESTful API
public class Base64Encoding {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        // Customer ID
        final String customerKey = "Your customer ID";
        // Customer secret
        final String customerSecret = "Your customer secret";
        // Concatenate customer key and customer secret and use base64 to encode the concatenated string
        String plainCredentials = customerKey + ":" + customerSecret;
        String base64Credentials = new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(plainCredentials.getBytes()));
        // Create authorization header
        String authorizationHeader = "Basic " + base64Credentials;
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        // Create HTTP request object
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create("https://api.agora.io/dev/v1/projects"))
                .GET()
                .header("Authorization", authorizationHeader)
                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                .build();
        // Send HTTP request
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request,
                HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Golang

package main
import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
  "encoding/base64"
)
// HTTP basic authentication example in Golang using the <Vg k="VSDK" /> Server RESTful API
func main() {
  // Customer ID
  customerKey := "Your customer ID"
  // Customer secret
  customerSecret := "Your customer secret"
  // Concatenate customer key and customer secret and use base64 to encode the concatenated string
  plainCredentials := customerKey + ":" + customerSecret
  base64Credentials := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(plainCredentials))
  url := "https://api.agora.io/dev/v1/projects"
  method := "GET"
  payload := strings.NewReader(``)
  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  // Add Authorization header
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Credentials)
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
  // Send HTTP request
  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}

PHP

<?php
// HTTP basic authentication example in PHP using the <Vg k="VSDK" /> Server RESTful API
// Customer ID
$customerKey = "Your customer ID";
// Customer secret
$customerSecret = "Your customer secret";
// Concatenate customer key and customer secret
$credentials = $customerKey . ":" . $customerSecret;
// Encode with base64
$base64Credentials = base64_encode($credentials);
// Create authorization header
$arr_header = "Authorization: Basic " . $base64Credentials;
$curl = curl_init();
// Send HTTP request
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.agora.io/dev/v1/projects',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    $arr_header,
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
if($response === false) {
    echo "Error in cURL : " . curl_error($curl);
}
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

C#

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
// HTTP basic authentication example in C# using the <Vg k="VSDK" /> Server RESTful API
namespace Examples.System.Net
{
    public class WebRequestPostExample
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            // Customer ID
            string customerKey = "Your customer ID";
            // Customer secret
            string customerSecret = "Your customer secret";
            // Concatenate customer key and customer secret and use base64 to encode the concatenated string
            string plainCredential = customerKey + ":" + customerSecret;
            // Encode with base64
            var plainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainCredential);
            string encodedCredential = Convert.ToBase64String(plainTextBytes);
            // Create authorization header
            string authorizationHeader = "Authorization: Basic " + encodedCredential;
            // Create request object
            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.agora.io/dev/v1/projects");
            request.Method = "GET";
            // Add authorization header
            request.Headers.Add(authorizationHeader);
            request.ContentType = "application/json";
            WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
            Console.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
            using (Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream())
            {
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
                string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
                Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer);
            }
            response.Close();
        }
    }
}

node.js

// HTTP basic authentication example in node.js using the <Vg k="VSDK" /> Server RESTful API
const https = require('https')
// Customer ID
const customerKey = "Your customer ID"
// Customer secret
const customerSecret = "Your customer secret"
// Concatenate customer key and customer secret and use base64 to encode the concatenated string
const plainCredential = customerKey + ":" + customerSecret
// Encode with base64
encodedCredential = Buffer.from(plainCredential).toString('base64')
authorizationField = "Basic " + encodedCredential
// Set request parameters
const options = {
  hostname: 'api.agora.io',
  port: 443,
  path: '/dev/v1/projects',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'Authorization':authorizationField,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  }
}
// Create request object and send request
const req = https.request(options, res => {
  console.log(`Status code: ${res.statusCode}`)
  res.on('data', d => {
    process.stdout.write(d)
  })
})
req.on('error', error => {
  console.error(error)
})
req.end()

Python

# -- coding utf-8 --
# Python 3
# HTTP basic authentication example in python using the <Vg k="VSDK" /> Server RESTful API
import base64
import http.client
# Customer ID
customer_key = "Your customer ID"
# Customer secret
customer_secret = "Your customer secret"
# Concatenate customer key and customer secret and use base64 to encode the concatenated string
credentials = customer_key + ":" + customer_secret
# Encode with base64
base64_credentials = base64.b64encode(credentials.encode("utf8"))
credential = base64_credentials.decode("utf8")
# Create connection object with basic URL
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.agora.io")
payload = ""
# Create Header object
headers = {}
# Add Authorization field
headers['Authorization'] = 'basic ' + credential
headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
# Send request
conn.request("GET", "/dev/v1/projects", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))