---
title: "Create an API token"
description: "Create an API token in MyAccount with Read or Read and Write access, save its key and auth token, and delete a token you no longer need."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "account"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/account/how-to/create-an-api-token/"
topic: ["account-security"]
---

# Create an API token

An API token lets your scripts and tools call the E2E Networks API on your account's behalf. Each
token has an API key and an auth token, and you choose whether it can only read or also change
things.

## Before you begin

Have somewhere safe ready for the API key and the auth token, such as a password
manager. MyAccount shows them only once, right after you create the token.

## Create the token

1. In MyAccount, open **API** in the sidebar. **Manage API** opens, listing your tokens with
   **Token Name**, **Capabilities**, and **Created On**.
2. Click **Create new Token**. **Add New Token** opens.
3. In **Token Name**, enter a name of letters, digits, underscore, or hyphen.
4. Choose **Capabilities**. **Read** is always on. Tick **Write** as well if the token needs to
   change things, not only read them.
5. Click **Generate**. MyAccount shows **Your token is successfully generated.**

## Save the key and the auth token

**Add New Token** now shows the **API Key** and the **Auth Token**, each with its own copy button.
This is the only time MyAccount shows them.

Copy both and keep them somewhere safe, or click **Download Tokens** to save every current
token's key and auth token together as a file. Keep the key and the auth token as safe as a
password: anyone who has them can use the API with this token's capabilities.

A token keeps working until you delete it. Once it has been in use for a long time, E2E emails the
account's contacts a reminder about it.

## Delete a token

On **Manage API**, click **Delete** beside the token. MyAccount asks you to confirm, naming the
token, then removes it at once. Any script or tool that used it stops working.

Changing the account's owner email deletes every API token on the account; create new ones
afterward. See [Change the account owner](/myaccount/account/how-to/change-the-owner-email/).

To make your first call with the new token, see the [MyAccount API](/api/myaccount/).