This section is for our newer V1 APIs only
For the older "V3" APIs that use Basic Authentication please see our documentation here
The Evnex API is secured using . This means you'll need a token to access the API. To generate a token, you'll need your client ID and secret. These can be found under “My Organisation” in CP-Link.
Please note that your credentials are highly sensitive, as they grant read/write access your organisation's data. Never share your client secret insecurely, or commit your client secret into a source code repository.
Once you have your client ID and secret in hand, they'll need to be Base64 encoded. If you have openssl installed, this can be done with the following command:
echo -n 'myClientId:myClientSecret' | openssl base64
The resulting value is used in the Authorization header for the request, which has the following syntax: 'Authorization: Basic '.
The following example uses the curl command to generate an access token using the Base64 encoded client ID and secret:
curl -X POST -k -H 'Authorization: Basic <Base64 encoded credentials>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-i 'https://auth.evnex.io/oauth2/token' \
--data grant_type=client_credentials
If the request is successful, you'll receive a response containing the access token in the following format:
{
"access_token": "<the access token>",
"expires_in": 86400,
"token_type": "Bearer"
}
To access the Evnex API, this access token must be supplied as the Authorization header with every request. For example, to get a list of all charge points in your organisation, you would make the following request:
curl -X GET -k -H 'Authorization: <the access token>' \
-i 'https://api.evnex.io/v1/charge-points/'
Tokens are valid for 24 hours, after which a new token will need to be created. If you make a request with an invalid token, you can expect to get to get a 401 Unauthorized response from the API.