Use a token in API calls

An API call to TIR carries two values from your token: the API key in the address and the token itself in the Authorization header. Keep both out of your code.

Before you begin

You need a token and its config file; see Copy a token or download its config file. The file holds the API key that the address needs.

Send a call

Add the API key to the address as apikey, and the token as a Bearer value in the Authorization header. Most calls also take a location, Delhi or Chennai.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-token>" \
  "https://api.e2enetworks.com/myaccount/api/v1/gpu/<path>?apikey=<your-api-key>&location=<Delhi or Chennai>"

• <your-token> is the token’s value from Auth Token.
• <your-api-key> is api_key from the config file.
• <path> is the call you are making; the TIR API reference lists each one.
• <Delhi or Chennai> is the location of the resource.

Keep the token out of your code

Set the token as an environment variable so that it stays out of your code:

export TIR_API_TOKEN="<your-token>"

Then read it in your script:

import os
token = os.environ["TIR_API_TOKEN"]

In a CI/CD pipeline, store the token and the API key as secrets of the pipeline instead of writing them in the pipeline file.

When the token stops working

• A token and its API key stop working 365 days after you create the token.
• Deleting the token stops them; see Delete a token.