Access token for more than 1 day in UiPath Cloud Orchestrator

[Salem_Ababneh]

Hello,

We’re using the UiPath Cloud Orchestrator Community Edition, and we are trying to do a PoC for the management.

Currently, we made 2 processes to automate in the PoC, and we spent the whole day just figuring out how to get the [access_token] and the [service_instance_logical_name] to be able to run jobs from a standalone system that we are creating.

We don’t have much experience in this, and would need your expertise in this.

First, how can I make the [access_token] to be always valid, because I read in the article of ‘consuming-cloud-api’ that

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The [access_token] required for making API calls is valid for 24 hours. You have to regenerate [access_token] and [id_token] using your [refresh_token] , otherwise you receive 401 status code.
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How can I make it more than 1 day? And if it is not possible, how can I automatically generate it without the need of us going manually everyday to extract the [access_token]?

And if we move to Enterprise Edition, is it better than the cloud version?

Thanks

[HareeshMR (Hareesh Madasi)]

Heyy @Salem_Ababneh,

It is not possible to make it valid for one day as you are using the cloud API, but you can automatically send a request to generate the refresh access token which will again be valid for one more hour. Here are the clear steps to do that, as you did some of them, go with the step which is related to refresh token

Steps for authenticating and using Orchestrator cloud API

Hi All, As I see lot of topics being posted on the authentication of Orchestrator cloud API, I decided to provide the step by step process of authentication and using the API. Here are the steps: Here is the documentation: About OData and References Generating Code Challenge and Code Verifier : a) This is the URL you need to run in any browser https://repl.it/languages/nodejs. and it will open the page like this [image] This is a nodeJS server which will retrieve us the specific code…

[Salem_Ababneh]

Amazing article! That sums it up, but I have a quick question.

Why did you authenticate through this link at the end and you already got the [access_token] in step 4 Getting Refresh Token?

https://platform.uipath.com/api/account/authenticate

Because you already got the [access_token] in step 4 Getting Refresh Token:

Anyway I have tried authenticating through it and using these parameters:

Post - https://platform.uipath.com/api/account/authenticate
Authorization: Bearer [Token_ID]
Content-Type: application/json
{
“tenancyName” : “[Tried accountName, accountLogicalName, serviceInstanceName, and serviceInstanceLogicalName]”,
“usernameOrEmailAddress” : “[my email]”,
“password” : “[my password]”
}

The response is:

{
“message”: “Invalid credentials, failed to login.”,
“errorCode”: 1000,
“resourceIds”: null
}

And I’m 100% sure my credentials are right.

[danielvianna]

Hey Salem, look for my post.
It’s bloody confusing, but even though they have this on their documentation and swagger / postman API templates, you should not try to authenticate using email and password. You will have to use this once when generating the first refresh (but it’s manually done) then you only authenticate with bearer access_token and bearer id_token depending on the task