Magento 2 API – Get Customer Token

Hello, Magento peeps!

Magento 2 is amazing, and so does its API. In my last post, I talked about creating a new customer account using Magento 2 API. In case you missed it, you can read it at Magento 2 API – Create New Customer. In this post, I will show how you can get a customer token to perform customer log in using API.

Customer login is a must-have functionality for eCommerce stores. If you are developing a third-party app or mobile app on Magento 2, you can use the Magento 2 API to allow the customers to log in using their credentials on the applications. Magento 2 provides a customer token to allow the users to perform specific functions that require customer-level access. In this blog post, I have explained the Magento 2 API – Get Customer Token in detail.

Let’s begin with the blog post to understand how to get customer token in Magento using API!

How to Get Customer Access Token by REST API in Magento 2?

There are three types of users in Magento 2 – Admin, Customer, and Guest. The former two requires authentication tokens, while the last one does not require any authentication token from the client to process the API request. Just like the Magento 2 Admin Access Token, the Customer Access Token is essential to process API requests that require customer access.

In order to allow the customers to log in to their accounts and perform actions such as edit account information, add products to wishlist, or anything, they may require to get the customer access token.

To get a customer token in Magento 2 through API, the client needs to send the username and password to the store_url/rest/V1/integration/customer/token through a POST request. More details about the same are provided below:

Method: POST

URL: store_url/rest/V1/integration/customer/token

Body:

Response:

The response will contain the customer admin access token from Magento 2 based on the username and password.

Conclusion

The customer access token is essential in Magento 2 to perform the customer level API actions such as updating profile details. It is also useful for implementing customer log in functionality while developing a Magento-based application. In this blog post, I have provided complete details about Magento 2 API – Get Customer Token. I hope you’ll find this guide helpful while developing applications based on Magento 2 API.

If you still have any queries or doubts regarding the Magento 2 customer login API, feel free to comment. I would be happy to help you! 😇

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