Create chat token
Creates a time-limited Chat Token that a client consumes to access the Chat channels and permissions supplied in the request. Call this operation from your server when granting Chat access to a member; choose a lifetime from 1 minute through 30 days and never expose the project API token used to create it. Use Create PubSub token for PubSub channels or Create API token for server-side REST authentication.
Permissions
The API token used to authenticate must have the following scope(s) enabled to make a successful request: Chat.
Authentication
SignalWire Basic Authentication using Project ID and API Token.
The client sends HTTP requests with the Authorization header containing the word Basic followed by a space and a base64-encoded string of project_id:token. The project ID will be used as the username and the API token as the password.
Example:
Authorization: Basic base64(project_id:token)
Request
The maximum time, in minutes, that the access token will be valid for. Between 1 and 43,200 (30 days).
User-defined channel names with read/write permissions. Max of 500 channels. Channel names cannot start with the reserved prefix sw_ and can be up to 250 characters.