Authenticate and access the Privacy Service API

This guide provides an introduction to the core concepts you must know before attempting to make calls to the Adobe Experience Platform Privacy Service API.

Prerequisites

This guide requires a working understanding of Privacy Service and how it allows you to manage access and delete requests from your data subjects (customers) across Adobe Experience Cloud applications.

In order to create access credentials for the API, an administrator within your organization must have previously set up product profiles for Privacy Service within Adobe Admin Console. The product profile that you assign to an API integration determines what permissions that integration has when accessing Privacy Service capabilities. See the guide on managing Privacy Service permissions for more information.

Gather values for required headers

In order to make calls to the Privacy Service API, you must first gather your access credentials to be used in required headers:

• Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}
• x-api-key: {API_KEY}
• x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}

These values are generated using Adobe Developer Console. Your {ORG_ID} and {API_KEY} only need to be generated once and can be reused in future API calls. However, your {ACCESS_TOKEN} is temporary and must be regenerated every 24 hours.

The steps for generating these values are covered in detail below.

One-time setup

Go to Adobe Developer Console and sign in with your Adobe ID. Next, follow the steps outlined in the tutorial on creating an empty project in the Developer Console documentation.

Once you have created a new project, select Add to Project and choose API from the dropdown menu.

Select the Privacy Service API

The Add an API screen appears. Select Experience Cloud to narrow the list of available APIs, then select the card for Privacy Service API before selecting Next.

Next, select the authentication type to generate access tokens and access the Privacy Service API.

Assign permissions through product profiles

The final configuration step is to select the product profiles that this integration will inherit its permissions from. If you select more than one profile, their permission sets will be combined for the integration.

When finished, select Save configured API.

Once the API has been added to the project, the Privacy Service API page for the project displays the following credentials that are required in all calls to Privacy Service APIs:

• {API_KEY} (Client ID)
• {ORG_ID} (Organization ID)

Authentication for each session

The final required credential you must gather is your {ACCESS_TOKEN}, which is used in the Authorization header. Unlike the values for {API_KEY} and {ORG_ID}, a new token must be generated every 24 hours to continue using the API.

In general, there are two methods of generating an access token:

• Generate the token manually for testing and development.
• Automate token generation for API integrations.

Generate a token manually

To manually generate a new {ACCESS_TOKEN}, navigate to Credentials > OAuth Server-to-Server and select Generate access token, as shown below.

A new access token is generated, and a button to copy the token to your clipboard is provided. This value is used for the required Authorization header, and must be provided in the format Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}.

Automate token generation

You can also use a Postman environment and collection to generate access tokens. For more information, read the section about using Postman to authenticate and test API calls in the Experience Platform API authentication guide.

Reading sample API calls

Each endpoint guide provides example API calls to demonstrate how to format your requests. These include paths, required headers, and properly formatted request payloads. Sample JSON returned in API responses is also provided. For information on the conventions used in documentation for sample API calls, see the section on how to read example API calls in the getting started guide for Platform APIs.

Next steps

Now that you understand what headers to use, you are ready to begin making calls to the Privacy Service API. Select one of the endpoint guides to get started:

• Privacy jobs
• Consent