BTCPay Server Authorization API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: BTCPay Greenfield Authorization API
  version: v1
  description: '# Introduction


    The BTCPay Server Greenfield API is a REST API. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.


    # Authentication


    You can authenticate either via Basic Auth or an API key. It''s recommended to use an API key for better security. You can create an API key in the BTCPay Server UI under `Account` -> `Manage Account` -> `API keys`. You can restrict the API key for one or multiple stores and for specific permissions. For testing purposes, you can give it the ''Unrestricted access'' permission. On production you should limit the permissions to the actual endpoints you use, you can see the required permission on the API docs at the top of each endpoint under `AUTHORIZATIONS`.


    If you want to simplify the process of creating API keys for your users, you can use the Authorization endpoint to predefine permissions and redirect your users to the BTCPay Server Authorization UI. You can find more information about this on the API Authorization Flow docs page.


    # Usage examples


    Use **Basic Auth** to read store information with cURL:

    ```bash

    BTCPAY_INSTANCE="https://mainnet.demo.btcpayserver.org"

    USER="MyTestUser@gmail.com"

    PASSWORD="notverysecurepassword"

    PERMISSION="btcpay.store.canmodifystoresettings"

    BODY="$(echo "{}" | jq --arg "a" "$PERMISSION" ''. + {permissions:[$a]}'')"


    API_KEY="$(curl -s \

    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

    --user "$USER:$PASSWORD" \

    -X POST \

    -d "$BODY" \

    "$BTCPAY_INSTANCE/api/v1/api-keys" | jq -r .apiKey)"

    ```


    Use an **API key** to read store information with cURL:

    ```bash

    STORE_ID="yourStoreId"


    curl -s \

    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

    -H "Authorization: token $API_KEY" \

    -X GET \

    "$BTCPAY_INSTANCE/api/v1/stores/$STORE_ID"

    ```


    You can find more examples on our docs for different programming languages:

    - cURL

    - Javascript/Node.Js

    - PHP'
  contact:
    name: BTCPay Server
    url: https://btcpayserver.org
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: /
  description: BTCPay Server Greenfield API
security:
- API_Key: []
  Basic: []
tags:
- name: Authorization
  description: Authorization operations
paths:
  /api-keys/authorize:
    get:
      operationId: ApiKeys_Authorize
      tags:
      - Authorization
      summary: Authorize User
      description: Redirect the browser to this endpoint to request the user to generate an api-key with specific permissions
      parameters:
      - name: permissions
        description: The permissions to request. (See API Key authentication)
        in: query
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            type: string
        x-position: 1
      - name: strict
        description: If permissions are specified, and strict is set to false, it will allow the user to reject some of permissions the application is requesting.
        in: query
        schema:
          type:
          - boolean
          - 'null'
          default: true
        x-position: 3
      - name: applicationIdentifier
        description: If specified, BTCPay Server will check if there is an existing API key associated with the user that also has this application identifier, redirect host AND the permissions required match(takes selectiveStores and strict into account). `applicationIdentifier` is ignored if redirect is not specified.
        in: query
        schema:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        x-position: 6
      - name: selectiveStores
        description: If the application is requesting the CanModifyStoreSettings permission and selectiveStores is set to true, this allows the user to only grant permissions to selected stores under the user's control.
        in: query
        schema:
          type:
          - boolean
          - 'null'
          default: false
        x-position: 4
      - name: applicationName
        description: The name of your application
        in: query
        schema:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        x-position: 2
      - name: redirect
        description: 'The url to redirect to after the user consents, with the query parameters appended to it: permissions, user-id, api-key. If not specified, user is redirected to their API Key list.'
        in: query
        schema:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: url
        x-position: 5
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A HTML form that a user can use to confirm permissions to grant
          content:
            text/html: {}
        '307':
          description: Makes browser do an HTTP POST request to the specified url in `redirect` with a JSON body consisting of `apiKey` (the api key created or matched), `permissions` (the permissions the user consented to), and `userId` (the id of the user that consented) upon consent
        '401':
          description: Missing authorization
          content:
            text/html: {}
      security: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    API_Key:
      type: apiKey
      description: "BTCPay Server supports authenticating and authorizing users through an API Key that is generated by them. Send the API Key as a header value to Authorization with the format: `token {token}`. For a smoother experience, you can generate a url that redirects users to an API key creation screen.\n\n The following permissions are available to the context of the user creating the API Key:\n\n* `btcpay.impersonation.canimpersonate`: Can impersonate users\n* `btcpay.user.candeleteuser`: Delete user\n* `btcpay.user.canmanagenotificationsforuser`: Manage your notifications\n* `btcpay.user.canmodifyprofile`: Manage your profile\n* `btcpay.user.canviewnotificationsforuser`: View your notifications\n* `btcpay.user.canviewprofile`: View your profile\n* `unrestricted`: Unrestricted access\n\nThe following permissions are available if the user is an administrator:\n\n* `btcpay.server.cancreatelightninginvoiceinternalnode`: Create invoices with internal lightning node\n* `btcpay.server.cancreateuser`: Create new users\n* `btcpay.server.canmanageusers`: Manage users\n* `btcpay.server.canmodifyserversettings`: Manage your server\n* `btcpay.server.canuseinternallightningnode`: Use the internal lightning node\n* `btcpay.server.canviewlightninginvoiceinternalnode`: View invoices from internal lightning node\n* `btcpay.server.canviewusers`: View users\n\nThe following permissions applies to all stores of the user, you can limit to a specific store with the following format: `btcpay.store.cancreateinvoice:6HSHAEU4iYWtjxtyRs9KyPjM9GAQp8kw2T9VWbGG1FnZ`:\n\n* `btcpay.store.canarchivepullpayments`: Archive your pull payments\n* `btcpay.store.canbroadcasttransactions`: Broadcast wallet transactions\n* `btcpay.store.cancanceltransactions`: Cancel wallet transactions\n* `btcpay.store.cancreateinvoice`: Create an invoice\n* `btcpay.store.cancreatelightninginvoice`: Create invoices from the lightning nodes associated with your stores\n* `btcpay.store.cancreatenonapprovedpullpayments`: Create non-approved pull payments\n* `btcpay.store.cancreatepullpayments`: Create pull payments\n* `btcpay.store.cancreatetransactions`: Create wallet transactions\n* `btcpay.store.cancreditsubscribers`: Credit your subscribers\n* `btcpay.store.canmanageinvoicestatus`: Manage invoice status\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagelegacyaccesstokens`: Manage legacy access tokens\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagepayouts`: Manage payouts\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagepullpayments`: Manage your pull payments\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagesubscribers`: Manage your subscribers\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagewallets`: Manage wallets\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagewalletsettings`: Manage wallet settings\n* `btcpay.store.canmanagewallettransactions`: Manage wallet transactions\n* `btcpay.store.canmodifyinvoices`: Modify invoices\n* `btcpay.store.canmodifyofferings`: Modify your offerings\n* `btcpay.store.canmodifypaymentrequests`: Modify your payment requests\n* `btcpay.store.canmodifystoresettings`: Modify your stores\n* `btcpay.store.cansendstoreemails`: Send store emails\n* `btcpay.store.cansigntransactions`: Sign wallet transactions\n* `btcpay.store.canuselightningnode`: Use the lightning nodes associated with your stores\n* `btcpay.store.canviewinvoices`: View invoices\n* `btcpay.store.canviewlightninginvoice`: View the lightning invoices associated with your stores\n* `btcpay.store.canviewofferings`: View your offerings\n* `btcpay.store.canviewpaymentrequests`: View your payment requests\n* `btcpay.store.canviewpayouts`: View payouts\n* `btcpay.store.canviewpullpayments`: View your pull payments\n* `btcpay.store.canviewreports`: View your reports\n* `btcpay.store.canviewstoresettings`: View your stores\n* `btcpay.store.canviewwallet`: View wallets\n* `btcpay.store.webhooks.canmodifywebhooks`: Modify stores webhooks\n\nNote that API Keys only limits permission of a user and can never expand it. If an API Key has the permission `btcpay.server.canmodifyserversettings` but that the user account creating this API Key is not administrator, the API Key will not be able to modify the server settings.\nSome permissions may include other permissions, see [this operation](#operation/permissionsMetadata).\n"
      name: Authorization
      in: header
    Basic:
      type: http
      description: BTCPay Server supports authenticating and authorizing users through the Basic HTTP authentication scheme during the first five minutes after account creation or when the user explicitly enables it. Send the user and password encoded in base64 with the format `Basic {base64(username:password)}`. Using this authentication method implicitly provides you with the `unrestricted` permission
      scheme: Basic
externalDocs:
  description: BTCPay Greenfield Plugins API
  url: https://docs.btcpayserver.org/API/Greenfield/Plugins/
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: BTCPay Server
  source: https://docs.btcpayserver.org/API/Greenfield/v1/swagger.json
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)