# BigID Authentication API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-authentication-api/  
**Provider:** BigID — https://apis.io/providers/bigid/  
**Documentation:** https://developer.bigid.com/api/bigid-api-token-authentication/

BigID Authentication API is one of 10 APIs that [BigID](https://apis.io/providers/bigid/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Authentication, Sessions, and Tokens. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Authenticate against a BigID deployment using either username/password or a long-lived user token. Exchange a user token for a short-lived system token (JWT) used to authorize subsequent REST API calls.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://developer.bigid.com/api/bigid-api-user-authentication/
- **Documentation** — https://developer.bigid.com/api/bigid-api-token-authentication/
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigid/refs/heads/main/openapi/bigid-authentication-api-openapi.yml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigid/refs/heads/main/examples/bigid-create-session-example.json
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other BigID APIs (9)

- [BigID Data Sources API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-data-sources-api/)
- [BigID Scans API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-scans-api/)
- [BigID DSAR API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-dsar-api/)
- [BigID Actionable Insights API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-actionable-insights-api/)
- [BigID Catalog API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-catalog-api/)
- [BigID Clusters API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-clusters-api/)
- [BigID Connector Templates API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-connector-templates-api/)
- [BigID Metadata Export API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-metadata-export-api/)
- [BigID Scan Profiles API](https://apis.io/apis/bigid/bigid-scan-profiles-api/)

## Tags

Authentication, Sessions, Tokens

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