Creatoriq Authentication

generated: '2026-08-11'
method: searched
source: https://apidocs.creatoriq.com/docs/ciq-api-documentation/05lf89tv60rvy-introduction-to-api-keys
  + openapi/ (17 documents)
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - http
  api_key_in:
  - header
schemes:
- name: bearerAuth
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  description: 'Format: Authorization: Bearer {api_key}'
  sources:
  - openapi/creatoriq-brand-safety-openapi.yml
- name: apiKey
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: x-api-key
  sources:
  - openapi/creatoriq-brand-safety-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-campaigns-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-conversion-metrics-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-ecommerce-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-lists-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-notes-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-onesheets-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-publishers-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-reports-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-socials-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-v1-divisions-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-v2-campaigns-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-v2-publishers-openapi.yml
  - openapi/creatoriq-webhooks-openapi.yml
- name: apiKey
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: X-API-KEY
  sources:
  - openapi/creatoriq-payments-openapi.yml
docs: https://apidocs.creatoriq.com/docs/ciq-api-documentation/05lf89tv60rvy-introduction-to-api-keys
model:
  style: static api key in a request header
  header: x-api-key (the Payments spec declares it as X-API-KEY; HTTP header names are case-insensitive)
  oauth2: false
  oidc: false
  scopes: false
  expiry: none documented
  refresh: none
  issuance: 'Manual. Docs: "reach out to your CreatorIQ contact or send an email to support@creatoriq.com".
    Sales issues sandbox keys; account managers issue production keys.'
  self_serve: false
  levels:
  - level: partner
    scope: The whole partner account — all divisions, all events and subscriptions.
  - level: division
    scope: One division. Can subscribe and unsubscribe for that division only. A partner key can view
      division subscriptions but cannot change them.
  rotation: No key-rotation API. Docs recommend periodically creating new keys, deleting old ones and
    updating applications.
  restrictions: Docs advise adding "API key restrictions" but no restriction mechanism is documented or
    exposed over the API.
  transport: Docs instruct that calls be made server-side, not from front-end apps.
secondary_use: The API key doubles as the webhook signing secret — X-Signature (MD5) and X-Signature-SHA256
  are computed over normalizedJson + timestamp + apiKey. Anything that verifies a CreatorIQ webhook therefore
  holds a credential that can call the entire API.
gaps:
- No OAuth 2.0 and no scopes — a key is all-or-nothing within its partner or division.
- No documented key expiry, no programmatic rotation, no key-management endpoints.
- No /.well-known/openid-configuration or oauth-authorization-server on any host (all 404/403).
- A missing x-api-key header returns 403, not 401, which is a non-standard signal for "unauthenticated".