Clerk Well Known API
Well-known endpoints like JWKS, deep linking, and openid-configuration.
Clerk Well Known API is one of 104 APIs that Clerk publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include .well Known. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 14 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{domain}.clerk.accounts.dev.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 5
Clerk Well Known API declares
5 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the cookie as __client (ProductionBrowser).
An API key is passed in the query as __dev_session (DevBrowser).
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (ProductionNativeApp).
An API key is passed in the query as _is_native (ProductionNativeFlag).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (ClientCredentials).
By default, every request must be authenticated, though some operations may also be called without credentials.
ProductionBrowser— The Client API token sent in the form of a browser cookie. Used to authenticate production browser applications.DevBrowser— A Dev Browser API token sent as a query parameter. Used to authenticate only dev instances. To generate a dev instance API token you must first make a request…ProductionNativeApp— The Client API token sent in the Authorization header. Used to authenticate native applications.ProductionNativeFlag— If sent and the value is true, it instructs the server to parse the API token from the Authorization header. It should always be set to true when using the Aut…ClientCredentials— HTTP Basic Authentication using Client ID as username and Client Secret as password.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Well-known endpoints like JWKS, deep linking, and openid-configuration.
Schemas 14
The contract defines 14 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are WellKnown.OpenIDConfiguration (19 properties), WellKnown.OAuth2AuthorizationServerMetadata (17 properties), JWKS.rsa.PrivateKey (16 properties), JWKS.ecdsa.PrivateKey (12 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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