Requesting temporary credentials

Request temporary credentials to be used to authenticate API requests.

In accordance with AWS security recommendations, Rightsline utilizes expiring credentials to authenticate requests to our API. These temporary credentials are valid for 1 hour. After these credentials expire, you will need to request a new set of temporary credentials. These temporary credentials will be used to compute the Authentication signature for all other requests to the API.

With the April 30, 2025 Production release, requests to this endpoint will be limited to 300 requests per minute for a given IP address. All subsequent requests to this endpoint for that minute will receive a 429: Too Many Requests response.

To obtain temporary credentials, send a request to the following endpoint:

Request Temporary Credentials

POST https://ris.rightsline.com/v4/auth/temporary-credentials

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Content-Type	string	application/json
x-api-key	string	Your company's API key.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
accessKey	string	Your user's API access key.
secretKey	string	Your user's API secret key.

200 Credentials accepted.

{
    "accessKey": "***********",
    "secretKey": "***************************",
    "sessionToken": "FQoDYXd//////====ONCXz6OZC6FIxoWO1CGxVkwnY6WT07ZdLgGkr5ZkRCnGpa5uiF5KKbgMMWyQjKIazeyarBvXleDQmJznO4tBKq3U709cY20lVkdzHwAJQ5HXWHVop6w6cRy8uyOFPZ9fPD79PJ0L9KUkSo9uIG8DUK7PRvs4eAtIQQFdW+j2eHx6sUlF====34098qojfaof",
    "expiration": "2018-01-01T00:00:01+00:00"
}

401 Invalid credentials.

Example Request

{
    "accessKey":"*****************",
    "secretKey":"***********************"
}

See Getting Started for instructions on obtaining your access and secret keys.