Plugin / API Bearer Auth
Description
Description
The API Bearer Auth plugin enables authentication for the REST API by using JWT access an refresh tokens. After the user logs in, the access and refresh tokens are returned and can be used for the next requests. Issued tokens can be revoked from within the users admin screen. See below for the endpoints.
Note that after activating this plugin, all REST API endpoints will need to be authenticated, unless the endpoint is whitelisted in the api_bearer_auth_unauthenticated_urls
filter (see FAQ for how to use this filter).
JWT
Access tokens can be formatted as JWT tokens. For this to work, you first have to create a secret and add it to the wp-config.php file. If you don’t do this, access tokens will work also, but are just random strings. To create a random secret key, you can do for example:
base64_encode(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(64));
And then add the result to wp-config:
define('API_BEARER_JWT_SECRET', 'mysecretkey');
If you have problems, you can verify your JWT tokens at: https://jwt.io/
Revoke tokens
This plugin adds a column to the users table in de admin where you can see when a token expires. You can also revoke tokens by selection the “Revoke API tokens” from the bulk actions select box.
API endpoints
Note that all endpoints expect JSON in the POST body.
Login
Endpoint:
POST /api-bearer-auth/v1/login
Request body:
{"username": "my_username", "password": "my_password"}
Response:
{
"wp_user": {
"data": {
"ID": 1,
"user_login": "your_user_login",
// other default WordPress user fields
}
},
"access_token": "your_access_token",
"expires_in": 86400, // number of seconds
"refresh_token": "your_refresh_token"
}
Make sure to save the access and refresh token!
Refresh access token
Endpoint:
POST /api-bearer-auth/v1/tokens/refresh
Request body:
{"token": "your_refresh_token"}
Response success:
{
"access_token": "your_new_access_token",
"expires_in": 86400
}
Response when sending a wrong refresh token is a 401:
{
"code": "api_api_bearer_auth_error_invalid_token",
"message": "Invalid token.",
"data": {
"status": 401
}
}
Do a request
After you have the access token, you can make requests to authenticated endpoints with an Authorization header like this:
Authorization: Bearer <your_access_token>
Note that Apache sometimes strips out the Authorization header. If this is the case, make sure to add this to the .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
# Don't know why, but some need the line below instead of the RewriteRule line
# SetEnvIf Authorization .+ HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$0
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
If you are not logged in or you send an invalid access token, you get a 401 response:
{
"code": "api_bearer_auth_not_logged_in",
"message": "You are not logged in.",
"data": {
"status": 401
}
}
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