Authentication

Now that you have created an application and subscribed to the Call Recording API, you must generate an access token.

1. Log-in using your Vonage Business Communications credentials. This example application uses the Requests library to call the /api/accounts/ API.

   Refer to the Making an API request guide for more details.

2. Create a function that requests the /api/accounts API to generate an access token:

   def get_token():
     url = "https://api.vonage.com/token"
     payload = 'grant_type=password&username={}&password={}&client_id={}&client_secret={}'.format(USERNAME, PASSWORD, CLIENT_ID, SECRET)
     headers = {
       'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
     }
   
     response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data = payload)
     return response.json()

3. Run the function passing in the following values:

   Key	Description
   USERNAME	Vonage Business Communications username. Be sure to append @vbc.prod to the username. firstname.lastname@vbc.prod.
   PASSWORD	Vonage Business Communications password.
   CLIENT_ID	The client id of your Vonage Developer application.
   SECRET	The secret to your Vonage Developer application.

   After running this function, you should see the following response:

   {'access_token': 'abc123-xxxxx-xxxxx',
   'expires_in': 9999,
   'refresh_token': 'def456-xxxx-xxxx',
   'scope': 'default',
   'token_type': 'Bearer'}
   

Next, you will make a GET request to get a list of recordings from the account.