Google - Obtaining an Authentication Token

To obtain an authentication token, submit an HTTP POST request to the following URL:

The following guidelines apply to the request:

• The POST body needs to include a string in the following format:

  &Email= <email_address>&Passwd= <password>&accountType=HOSTED&service=apps

  You will need to make the following changes to this string:

  • Replace the string <email_address> with the email address for your admin account.

  • Replace the string <password> with the password for that account.

• The email address and password values must be URL-encoded. For example, the URL-encoded form of the email address apps.test.account@example.comis apps%2Etest%2Eaccount%40example%2Ecom.

• The POST request must specify the value application/x-www-form-urlencoded for the Content-Type header.

Google will return a response containing your authentication token in response to your POST request. The authentication token will be the Auth value on that page, and you need to extract the token from the page. When you submit an API request, you must set the Content-type and Authorization headers as shown in the example below.

 Content-type: application/atom+xml Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=your-authentication-token