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Access token API

Vipps MobilePay Available for Vipps and MobilePay.

Authorization endpoints

The following two endpoints are provided for authorization:

If you are a merchant, skip to Access token endpoint. If you are a partner, see Partner authorization.

Partner authorization

Some new APIs, including the Management API and Report API use a new token endpoint, for some roles.

Here is a description of how you, as a partner, can use the authorization endpoints:

APIMerchant: Normal API keysPartner: Partner keysPartner: Management keysPartner: Accounting keys
Main APIsPOST:/accesstoken/getPOST:/accesstoken/getPOST:/accesstoken/getN/A
Management APIPOST:/accesstoken/getPOST:/accesstoken/getPOST:/miami/v1/token:N/A
Report APIPOST:/accesstoken/getN/AN/APOST:/miami/v1/token:

Please note:

  • Please see Partner keys.
    • If you are a partner and have partner keys, you use those.
    • If you are a partner and have management keys, you use those.
    • If you are a partner and has accounting keys, you use those.
    • If you are a merchant you use your normal API keys.
  • The POST:/miami/v1/token will be used for all new APIs, but we will not change the authentication for existing APIs. A working integration that uses POST:/accesstoken/get will continue to work as before.
  • There are technical reasons for the two endpoints and the different roles, and it's unfortunately no easy way to "streamline" this for all APIs and roles at once.
  • You can have multiple access tokens, and they can be used at the same time as long as they are valid.
  • Partners should always use partner keys when possible.

Access token endpoint

Use POST:/accesstoken/get to get an authorization token that can be used with most Vipps MobilePay API requests.

All API requests must include an Authorization header with a JSON Web Token (JWT), which we call the access token. The Access token API allows you to get this token.

Get an access token

The access token is obtained by calling POST:/accesstoken/get and providing these values in the HTTP header:

  • client_id - Client_id for a sales unit.
  • client_secret - Client_id for a sales unit.
  • Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key - Subscription key for a sales unit.

See How to find the API keys.

Request:

A sample request to POST:/accesstoken/get, including the HTTP headers:

client_id: fb492b5e-7907-4d83-ba20-c7fb60ca35de
client_secret: Y8Kteew6GE2ZmeycEt6egg==
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: 0f14ebcab0ec4b29ae0cb90d91b4a84a
Merchant-Serial-Number: 123456
Vipps-System-Name: acme
Vipps-System-Version: 3.1.2
Vipps-System-Plugin-Name: acme-webshop
Vipps-System-Plugin-Version: 4.5.6

(Unfortunately, POST:/accesstoken/get is a POST without a body, to an endpoint with get in the URL. Too late to change it now, sorry.)

Here's a curl example with the same API credentials and HTTP headers as above:

curl -X POST 'https://apitest.vipps.no/accesstoken/get' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H 'client_id: YOUR-CLIENT-ID' \
-H 'client_secret: YOUR-CLIENT-SECRET' \
-H 'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: YOUR-SUBSCRIPTION-KEY' \
-H 'Merchant-Serial-Number: YOUR-MSN' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Name: acme' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Version: 3.1.2' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Plugin-Name: acme-webshop' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Plugin-Version: 4.5.6' \
--data ''

Replace the value of the Vipps-System headers with your own values. See HTTP headers for more details.

note

When a partner uses partner keys for requests that are not for a specific merchant, the Merchant-Serial-Number can be omitted.

Response:

The response from POST:/accesstoken/get is like this:

{
"token_type": "Bearer",
"expires_in": "86398",
"ext_expires_in": "0",
"expires_on": "1495271273",
"not_before": "1495184574",
"resource": "00000002-0000-0000-c000-000000000000",
"access_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1Ni <truncated>"
}

An explanation of the contents of the access token (the JWT properties):

NameDescription
token_typeIt’s a Bearer token. The word Bearer must be added before the token
expires_inToken expiry duration in seconds.
ext_expires_inExtra expiry time. Not used.
expires_onToken expiry time in epoch time format.
not_beforeToken creation time in epoch time format.
resourceFor the product for which token has been issued.
access_tokenThe actual access token that needs to be used in Authorization request header.

Please note: The access token is valid for 1 hour in the test environment and 24 hours in the production environment. To be sure that you are using correct time please use expires_in or expires_on. The access token is a JWT (JSON Web Token), and uses UTC time.

You now have the access token and can make subsequent API calls with the following HTTP headers:

Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1Ni <truncated>
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: 0f14ebcab0ec4b29ae0cb90d91b4a84a
Merchant-Serial-Number: 123456
Vipps-System-Name: acme
Vipps-System-Version: 3.1.2
Vipps-System-Plugin-Name: acme-webshop
Vipps-System-Plugin-Version: 4.5.6

Important: Remember to specify Bearer. If not, you may get a HTTP 401 Unauthorized error. See the FAQ: Why do I get HTTP 401 Unauthorized?.

Token endpoint

The token endpoint is: POST:/miami/v1/token.

While most of the older APIs, use the access token endpoint, some new APIs, including the Management API and Report API use this token endpoint.

Important: This endpoint will be renamed to POST:/authentication/v1/token later, when the internal technical dependencies are resolved.

Authenticating with this endpoint is quite similar to the above-mentioned flow, but this new endpoint uses a completely standard OAuth client credentials flow, allowing use of standardized libraries. We strongly recommend this approach, using one of the trusted libraries to perform the flow. There should be no reason to implement this from scratch.

Example request to POST:/miami/v1/token:

curl -X POST https://api.vipps.no/miami/v1/token \
-H 'Authorization: Basic <Base64-encoded YOUR-CLIENT-ID:YOUR-CLIENT-SECRET>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Name: acme' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Version: 3.1.2' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Plugin-Name: acme-webshop' \
-H 'Vipps-System-Plugin-Version: 4.5.6' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials'

The Base64-encoded YOUR-CLIENT-ID:YOUR-CLIENT-SECRET example is the string with your management keys' client_id and client_secret encoded to Base64.

Please note: The Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key HTTP header should not be sent (unlike with the POST:/accesstoken/get endpoint).

Example (JSON) response from POST:/miami/v1/token:

{
"access_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1Ni <truncated>",
"token_type": "Bearer",
"expires_in": 900
}

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