Creating an API key

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It’s important to remember that the token is exactly the same as giving someone your email and password. They will have access to act on behalf of you, be careful who you share your token to.

Creating an API key allows you to obtain access to the platform without having to login through the Swift Labs web application. The API key can be used to add and modify athlete and squad information and pull athlete activity data as well as additional administration functions.

Creating the Key

Navigating to your organisation settings and clicking on the last tab within the organisation settings will take you to your API keys for your organisation.

Organisation API Keys

Clicking on the “Add Key” will take you to create a new API Key. To create a new key, three components are required, including; the token name, expiry and token scopes.

By default the token expiry is set to the maximum of three months and must be manually renewed once the token has expired.

Creating an API Key
API Token

Token Scopes

Token scopes restrict the amount of functionality the token has with the account. Selecting the athletes:read token will prevent the token from being able to create or remove an athlete. This gives you fine grain control over the amount of functionality and access the token has. Using the table below, you should determine the level of access required.

ScopeDescription
coaches:readRead coaches for your organisation.
athletes:read
Read the athletes of your organisation.
athletes:create
Create athletes for your organisation.
athletes:updateUpdate athletes for your organisation.
athletes:remove
Remove athletes for your organisation.
squads:readRead the squads for your organisation.
squads:createCreate squads for your organisation.
squads:updateUpdate squads for your organisation.
squads:removeRemove squads for your organisation.
squads:athletesList the athletes that are members of the squad.
squads:coachesList the coaches that are members of the squad
squads:add_coachesAdd coaches to the squad.
squads:add_athletesAdd athletes to the squad.
squads:remove_coaches
Remove coaches from the squad.
squads:remove_athletes
Remove athletes from the squad.
activity:read Read activities of an athlete, acthlete:read also required.
activity:remove
Remove activities of an athlete, athlete:read also required.
org:read
Read your organisation details.
org:write
Update your organisation details.
org:users_read
Read the users for your organisation.
org:users_update
Update the users for your organisation.
org:users_remove
Remove users from your organisation.
user:read
Read your user profile.
user:write Update your user profile.

Using your token

Using an application like Postman is an ideal way to test your API key. Appending the token you just generated with the Authorization header, will authorise the requests so long as the token has not expired and has the required scopes.


Authorization: JndHI3iPWR3n6oeMKyOeB1BAs4kbobfchkvakZG9b4sTuSZSr3kjBb3eZA5EjADt3XwP6SGmK0qibs82jIlb3w==
Athletes API request.

Additional Information

Additional information on the API requests available can be found within our API documentation here. https://swiftperformance.blob.core.windows.net/api/docs/index.html?url=/api/public/SwiftAPI_latest.json

Common errors to look out for:

An invalid token will generate the following error.

{
"Message": "Unable to authorize user."
}

A token without the required scope will through this error detailing the required scope for the request.

{
"Message": "Unable to authorize token, could not find scope athletes:read."
}

And remember

It’s important to remember that the token is exactly the same as giving someone your email and password. They will have access to act on behalf of you, be careful who you share your token to.

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