Communico Client API authentication and request example 

1. Introduction

Communico provides access to client data via a suite of APIs. You will need the client’s keyword and a valid access token for all requests.

2. Authentication

The Communico API uses OAuth 2.0 http://oauth.net/2/ for authentication. To generate a valid authorization header you will need an API key and secret. If you have not been provided with authentication credentials please contact support@communico.co.

3. Access Token

An access token can be generated by making a request to https://api.communico.co/v3/token with a valid authorization header.

• Combine your client key and client secret like this: clientKey:clientSecret.
• Use your languages libraries to encode the combined secret and key using a Base64 algorithm.
• Apply the string to the 'Authorization' header like this: Basic [Base64 string] (see the example below).

If your credentials are valid, an access token will be returned as part of the response:

You can extract the access_token and token_type values from this response and then include them in Communico API calls as part of the "Authorization" HTTP header, as shown in the example below:

4. Attend request example for events

This is an example of making a request to the the Communico Client API to get a list of events from the Communico database.

Returned is a JSON array of events from the given time period.

Attend fields

See full list of available attend fields