Note: this feature is only available to customers with API integrations who have expressed interest in managing their own credentials. If this feature is turned on then users with Organization Admin permissions can view this page.
API credentials are unique identifiers that our system uses to connect a customer’s Sighten account with other sites via APIs to automate workflows and import and export data.
How do I see the credentials associated with my account?
First, navigate to Settings and select Integrations on the left sidebar. The Credentials and Webhooks tab is the second tab on this page.
How do I add credentials to my account?
1. To add a credential, click the green Add Credential button
2. From there, an Add Credentials modal will open.
3. Name your credential: this should be something simple that identifies the integration.
4. Base URL: This is the address of the API endpoint. You are required to enter a URL path when setting up a webhook, so this should be the primary / re-used component of the URL.
5. Determine some settings for your API Credential:
Test credentials - toggle: If this is toggled on, you will see a “test” label next to the credential name. And the credentials will only be used on Sighten testing environments like Onboard. If it is toggled off, it will be used on our production environment, Engine.
Org. Specific Authentication - toggle: if this is turned on, you will be able to add API keys for multiple organizations in the same credential.
Ex: If you have this toggled on, then you can add API keys for more than one organization. As you can see above, you can continue to add organizations by clicking the Add Organization Credential button. You can remove an organization’s credentials, by clicking the Remove Organization button to the right of the dropdown.
6. Add Headers:
The Content-Type header is required. You can choose JSON, XML, or form-urlencoded
You can also add additional optional headers by clicking the + Header button
You can also remove the additional header by clicking the “X” to the right of the header.
Note: If you want to use Headers for authentication, select Headers in the Authentication Data section, explained below.
7. Select the Authentication type:
Headers - You will be asked to provide a secret Key and a Value that your server will recognize.
Basic - With this method, you provide a username and password that will be supplied to your server in HTTP basic auth format.
Token (Bearer Auth) - This authentication method works by ensuring that each request to a server is accompanied by a signed token which the server verifies for authenticity and only then responds to the request. You will be asked to provide a Key and a Value.
AWS4 - You will be asked to provide an Access Key, a Secret Key, AWS Region, AWS Service, and a Base Endpoint.
HMAC-SHA256 - You will be asked to provide a Client ID and a Client Secret.
No Authentication - You do not need to provide any information in addition to the header(s).
