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Tyk Single Sign On API

The Dashboard SSO API allows you to implement custom authentication schemes for the Dashboard and Portal. Our Tyk Identity Broker (TIB) internally also uses this API.

Tyk Single Sign On API is one of 39 APIs that Tyk publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, a GitHub repository, a changelog, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 3 base URLs: http://localhost/, https://localhost/, https://{tenant}.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://tyk.io/
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Tyk Single Sign On API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Admin-Auth (ApiKeyAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).

  • bearerAuth — The Tyk Dashboard API Access Credentials

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.

Single Sign On 2

The Dashboard SSO API allows you to implement custom authentication schemes for the Dashboard and Portal. Our Tyk Identity Broker (TIB) internally also uses this API.

POST
/admin/sso/
Generate authentication token
generateAuthToken body → 200400401
POST
/api/sso
Generate authentication token.
generateAuthToken body → 200400401403500

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SSOAccessData (7 properties), ApiResponse (4 properties), apiStatusMessage (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

apiStatusMessage
object
apiStatusMessage represents an API status message
2 properties
SSOAccessData
object
7 properties
ApiResponse
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

tyk-single-sign-on-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Tyk Assets API
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Tyk Basic Authentication API
Tyk Batch Requests API
Tyk Cache Invalidation API
Tyk Certificates API
Tyk Certs API
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