Generate tokens and use the REST APIs

The Optimizely Feature Experimentation REST APIs let you interface with Optimizely programmatically to build customized integrations and workflows. For example, you can create feature flags from an automated script or build custom dashboards of experiment results.

For production, you should integrate the REST API calls directly into your application. You should use OAuth 2.0. For implementation details, see the Optimizely Web Experimentation OAuth 2.0OAuth 2.0 documentation.

To make the APIs easily explorable, Optimizely has also implemented personal access tokenspersonal access tokens.

To generate a personal access token in Optimizely

For security purposes, when you go away from the API Access tab, the token is no longer visible when you return. If you need a token, generate a new one.

Revoking a token permanently removes it, so you can no longer use it to connect to the Feature Experimentation APIs. If you are an administrator, you can revoke any personal token attached to the account. If you are not an administrator for the account, you can only revoke the tokens that you generate for yourself.

To revoke and delete a token

To authenticate, use a token generated from the previous instructionsprevious instructions in the request header, as shown in the following example. All API request examples in this documentation use the same header.