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Socket Authentication

Authentication

Socket authenticates REST API requests with an organization API token. The OpenAPI declares two HTTP schemes: bearer and basic. The same token is used either as an Authorization Bearer credential or as the Basic-auth username (with an empty password). Tokens carry fine-grained scopes (see scopes/socket-scopes.yml) and are metered by quota.

Socket secures its APIs with http across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: http Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: API key in:

Security Schemes

bearerAuth http
scheme: bearer
basicAuth http
scheme: basic

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
source: openapi/socket-openapi-original.json
docs: https://docs.socket.dev/reference/authentication
description: >-
  Socket authenticates REST API requests with an organization API token. The OpenAPI declares
  two HTTP schemes: bearer and basic. The same token is used either as an Authorization Bearer
  credential or as the Basic-auth username (with an empty password). Tokens carry fine-grained
  scopes (see scopes/socket-scopes.yml) and are metered by quota.
summary:
  types: [http]
  http_schemes: [bearer, basic]
  api_key_in: []
  oauth2_flows: []
  token_scopes: true
schemes:
- name: bearerAuth
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  description: 'Authorization: Bearer <ORG_API_TOKEN>'
  sources: [openapi/socket-openapi-original.json]
- name: basicAuth
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  description: HTTP Basic with the API token as the username and an empty password.
  sources: [openapi/socket-openapi-original.json]
token_management:
  docs: https://docs.socket.dev/reference/creating-and-managing-api-tokens
  operations: [postAPIToken, getAPITokens, postAPITokenUpdate, postAPITokensRotate, postAPITokensRevoke]
  scopes_artifact: scopes/socket-scopes.yml