Authentication Types

To access the Chronomics API most calls required you to be authenticated via a token. This can either be:

• Access token if you authenticating as a partner and want to access all your users data
• OAuth if your building a public accessible app where users access their own data

Access Tokens

You should use access tokens if:

• You are a Chronomics partner
• You want to access the API from your backend (the token must be kept secure)
• You want to programmatically access your users data

OAuth

You should use OAuth if:

• You want users to only be able to access their own data
• You want to access the API from your frontend