Generate a JWT

Generate a JSON Web Token (JWT) for use with single sign on. Used if you do not want to generate the JWT yourself. Also provided is the URL that can directly be used for SSO.

The JWT URL is valid for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes you must generate a new JWT URL. Please the Max Pack expireIn for additional options.

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Header Parameters

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Request Body

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Additional information

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Switching Profiles

If you want to switch profile sessions, i.e. use a different profile, please see Automatic Logout of a Profile Session.

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Private Key

The Private Key must be precise, meaning preserving all characters including newlines. We recommend reading the private.key from a file to preserve all characters. If you paste the key into your code, you might need to manually replace newlines with a \n character or URL encode the string.

Pasting the key directly into code often gives issues.

It is recommended to first verify your data in Postman using generateJWT. You can then generate the code from Postman, or read the key file from a directory or database. Use the user’s profile Profile Key in the profileKey field. Using the API Key in the profileKey field will result in an error.

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Opening the JWT URL

Open the JWT URL in a new browser tab, browser window, or View Controller on iOS. The social networks do not allow opening the URL in an iFrame or obfuscating the approved partner origin domain.

You may control the closing or redirecting of the new window or tab.

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Generate a JSON Web Token

1 minute video explaining how to generate a JSON Web Token (JWT):

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Verify the JWT URL

The generateJWT endpoint does not validate the returned JWT URL by default. For example, if a corrupt Private Key is passed into generateJWT a URL will still be returned and the URL result in a 401 error.

You can verify the returned JWT URL by including verify: true in the generateJWT body parameters. If the JWT URL can not be validated an error will be returned. For example, if the Private Key had a character removed the following would be returned:

{
  "action": "JWT",
  "status": "error",
  "code": 189,
  "message": "Error generating JWT. Check the sent parameters, such as the privateKey has no extra tabs, spaces, or newlines. Also the entire private.key file including -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- and -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----. Error: secretOrPrivateKey must be an asymmetric key when using RS256"
}

We recommend using verify: true only in a non-production environment since the validation takes additional processing time.

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Bubble.io

If you are a Bubble user, please see Generate JWT Token in the Bubble.io section for instructions:

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JWT Expire In

If you want a longer JWT timeout than the default 5 minutes, include the expireIn field.

For example, send the following JSON to set the JWT URL valid for 30 minutes:

{
  "expireIn": 30
}

This allows you to email the link to your users instead of them having to go to your app or platform. A common use case is if your user need to reconnect a social account, you can email them the JWT link to directly re-link the social account instead of having to navigate to your platform.

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Mobile JWT Examples

The following Swift, Flutter, and React Native code examples show how to launch the social linking page on an iOS device. Replace the jwtURL String variable with the return from the /generateJWT endpoint.

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Swift (iOS)

In Swift, use a UIViewController and SFSafariViewControllerDelegate. We don’t recommend using a WebView since some social networks such as Facebook and Google block authentication.

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Flutter (Dart)

In Flutter (Dart), there is no direct equivalent to a UIViewController or the SFSafariViewController. However, you can achieve a similar functionality by using the url_launcher package to open web URLs.

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React Native

React Native also doesn’t have a direct equivalent to SFSafariViewController, but you can achieve a similar result with the WebBrowser API provided by expo-web-browser, which opens a URL in a modal browser window that shares cookies with the system browser. Otherwise, you can use the built-in React Native Linking function to open Safari: await Linking.canOpenURL(jwtURL);

• Swift
• Flutter
• React Native

import UIKit
import SafariServices

class ViewController: UIViewController, SFSafariViewControllerDelegate {
    
    var jwtURL = "https://profile.ayrshare.com?domain=acme&jwt=eyJhbGciOiJ"

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        setupButton()
    }
    
    func setupButton() {
        let button = UIButton(type: .system)
        button.frame = CGRect(x: (view.bounds.width - 200) / 2, y: (view.bounds.height - 50) / 2, width: 200, height: 50)
        button.setTitle("Open URL", for: .normal)
        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(buttonTapped), for: .touchUpInside)
        view.addSubview(button)
    }

    @objc func buttonTapped() {
        openURLInInAppBrowser()
    }

    func openURLInInAppBrowser() {
        if let url = URL(string: jwtURL) {
            let safariVC = SFSafariViewController(url: url)
            safariVC.delegate = self
            present(safariVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    }

    // Optional: If you want to handle when the in-app browser is closed
    func safariViewControllerDidFinish(_ controller: SFSafariViewController) {
        controller.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

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Connect Accounts Email

In conjunction with the longer expire time option, you can also automatically have Ayrshare email your users a link to the social linkage page.

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Connect Accounts JSON

For example the following JSON will send an email to [email protected] with the company name ACME, contact email [email protected] , and links to the terms and privacy policy:

{
  "email": {
    "to": "[email protected]", // required
    "contactEmail": "[email protected]", // required
    "company": "ACME", // required
    "termsUrl": "https://www.ayrshare.com/terms", // required
    "privacyUrl": "https://www.ayrshare.com/privacy", // required
    "expireIn": 60 // optional
  }
}

The response will include the following if the email and expire time was set:

{
  "emailSent": true,
  "expiresIn": "30m"
}

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Example JWT Connect Accounts Email

Here is an example of an email with the Connect Account link that opens social linkage page:

The email will come from the address: Social Connect Hub [email protected]