topic How to generate a valid token for ArcGIS Online Feature Service in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions

How to generate a valid token for ArcGIS Online Feature Service

MatthewFogarty — Wed, 26 May 2021 17:09:25 GMT

I'm trying to access admin APIs for my feature service, but I'm unable to get a valid token. I saw this post and followed along (https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-api-questions/generating-token-for-arcgis-online-hosted-service/m-p/220721) and I was able to generate a token. However, when I add that token into my URL to access the admin services, it says Invalid Token. Is there another way I should be generating this token to get the access I need?

URL to generate token looks like this:

https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/generateToken?f=json&username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD&client=requestip

URL to try to access the feature service admin APIs looks like this:

https://services6.arcgis.com/qDx.../arcgis/rest/admin/services/Layer_Name/FeatureServer?token=2nt...

Error:

Re: How to generate a valid token for ArcGIS Online Feature Service

Anonymous User — Thu, 27 May 2021 21:40:59 GMT

Hi Matthew,

There are lots of ways to generate a token for ArcGIS Online. My preferred way is using the application credentials for an item in my ArcGIS Online organization. The steps are:

Browse to the Content tab of your ArcGIS Online organization. Add Item -> An Application of the type "Application"
Go to the Item Details page of the created item and browse to the Settings tab. At the bottom of the page, expand "Registered Info". You should see an AppID and AppSecret.
Go to the Oauth2.0 token URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/oauth2/token?. The URL parameters we need are:

f = json
client_id = your AppID from above
client_secret = your AppSecret from above
grant_type = client_credentials
expiration = 20160 (2 weeks in minutes, this is the maximum)

Send this as a GET or POST request, and a token should be returned that can be used for all content owned by/shared with you to in your ArcGIS Online organization.

I hope this helps!

-Calvin

Re: How to generate a valid token for ArcGIS Online Feature Service

BethLott — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:47:16 GMT

I do this with RestSharp. Instead of appending the token onto the end of your request URL, you add the token to the request using the AddHeader method.