Authentication

• The VideoSDK API uses authentication token to authenticate api requests.

• In REST APIs, token will be passed in header field called "Authorization".

• For Example:

TOKEN GENERATION

NodeJS

• NodeJS
• PHP
• Python
• .NET
• Go
• Java
• Ruby
• Rust

const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');

const API_KEY = <YOUR API KEY>;
const SECRET = <YOUR SECRET>;

const options = { 
 expiresIn: '120m', 
 algorithm: 'HS256' 
};
const payload = {
 apikey: API_KEY,
 permissions: [`allow_join`], // `ask_join` || `allow_mod` 
 version: 2, //OPTIONAL
 roomId: `2kyv-gzay-64pg`, //OPTIONAL
 participantId: `lxvdplwt`, //OPTIONAL 
 roles: ['crawler', 'rtc'], //OPTIONAL
};

const token = jwt.sign(payload, SECRET, options);
console.log(token);

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How to generate authentication token ?

• In order to generate authentication token, you will need API_KEY and SECRET, which you can get them from here.

• In payload, you will add your apikey and permissions.

  • apikey: You can get it from here.
  • permissions: List of permissions that you want to allow.
    • allow_join
    • allow_mod
    • ask_join

• Then, you will sign this payload with your SECRET and jwt options.

• You can learn more, here