Groww Authentication API

Access-token generation for API key + secret and TOTP flows.

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OpenAPI Specification

groww-authentication-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Groww Trading Authentication API
  description: The Groww Trading API is the official programmatic interface to the Groww investing and trading platform, enabling algorithmic trading, order management, portfolio and position tracking, margin calculation, live market data (LTP, quote, OHLC, option chain, greeks) and historical candle data across the CASH (equity) and FNO (derivatives) segments on Indian exchanges. Requests are authenticated with a daily access token (or an OAuth2 / API-key + secret / TOTP flow) and versioned with the X-API-VERSION header.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Groww Trading API Support
    url: https://groww.in/trade-api/docs
  termsOfService: https://groww.in/terms-and-conditions
  x-api-evangelist-source: https://groww.in/trade-api/docs/curl
servers:
- url: https://api.groww.in
  description: Groww Trading API production host
security:
- bearerAuth: []
  apiVersion: []
tags:
- name: Authentication
  description: Access-token generation for API key + secret and TOTP flows.
paths:
  /v1/token/api/access:
    post:
      operationId: createAccessToken
      summary: Generate an access token
      description: Exchange an API key (sent as the bearer credential) plus either an approval checksum or a TOTP code for a short-lived access token used on all subsequent requests. Access tokens expire daily at 06:00 AM IST.
      tags:
      - Authentication
      security:
      - bearerAuth: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessTokenRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Access token issued
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessTokenResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: User not authorised to perform this operation
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
  schemas:
    ErrorEnvelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - SUCCESS
          - FAILURE
        payload:
          type: object
          nullable: true
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    AccessTokenRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - key_type
      properties:
        key_type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - approval
          - totp
        checksum:
          type: string
          description: SHA256(secret + timestamp), required for approval flow.
        timestamp:
          type: string
          description: Epoch seconds (10 digits), required for approval flow.
        totp:
          type: string
          description: TOTP code, required for totp flow.
    AccessTokenResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
        payload:
          type: object
          properties:
            token:
              type: string
            tokenRefId:
              type: string
            sessionName:
              type: string
            expiry:
              type: string
            isActive:
              type: boolean
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: Groww error code (e.g. GA004).
        message:
          type: string
        metadata:
          type: object
          nullable: true
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Daily access token (or API key on the token endpoint) sent as `Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}`.'
    apiVersion:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-VERSION
      description: API version header, currently `1.0`.
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: OAuth2 authorization-code flow advertised at https://api.groww.in/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://groww.in/oauth/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://api.groww.in/oauth2/v1/token
          scopes: {}