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Stytch Consumer Sessions Authenticate Example

Authenticate a session token or session JWT and retrieve associated session data. If `session_duration_minutes` is included, update the lifetime of the session to be that many minutes from now. All timestamps are formatted according to the RFC 3339 standard and are expressed in UTC, e.g. `2021-12-29

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Stytch Consumer Sessions Authenticate Example is an example object payload from Stytch, with 5 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

{
  "title": "Authenticate",
  "endpoint": "POST /v1/sessions/authenticate",
  "description": "Authenticate a session token or session JWT and retrieve associated session data. If `session_duration_minutes` is included, update the lifetime of the session to be that many minutes from now. All timestamps are formatted according to the RFC 3339 standard and are expressed in UTC, e.g. `2021-12-29",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "path": "/v1/sessions/authenticate",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "Basic <base64(project_id:secret)>",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "session_token": "<session_token>",
      "session_duration_minutes": 3600,
      "session_jwt": "<session_jwt>",
      "session_custom_claims": {}
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "request_id": "example-value",
      "session_token": "example-value",
      "session_jwt": "example-value",
      "status_code": 200
    }
  }
}