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BigID Authentication API

Authenticate against a BigID deployment using either username/password or a long-lived user token. Exchange a user token for a short-lived system token (JWT) used to authorize subsequent REST API calls.

BigID Authentication API is one of 10 APIs that BigID publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Authentication, Sessions, and Tokens. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://sandbox.bigid.tools/api/v1, https://{deployment}.bigid.com/api/v1.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Servers
https://sandbox.bigid.tools/api/v1
https://{deployment}.bigid.com/api/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

BigID Authentication API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (BearerAuth).

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Authentication 2

User and token authentication operations.

POST
/sessions
Create A User Session
createSession body → 200401
POST
/refresh-access-token
Refresh Access Token
refreshAccessToken → 200401

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SessionResponse (6 properties), TokenResponse (2 properties), SessionRequest (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SessionRequest
object
2 properties 2 required
TokenResponse
object
2 properties
SessionResponse
object
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bigid-authentication-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs BigID publishes across the network.

BigID Data Sources API
BigID Scans API
BigID DSAR API
BigID Actionable Insights API
BigID Catalog API
BigID Clusters API
BigID Connector Templates API
BigID Metadata Export API
BigID Scan Profiles API
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