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Everything about authentication and using Edusign's API.

Use Edusign's API

The use of the Edusign API is free of charge.
In accordance with Edusign's pricing policy, no additional costs are incurred.
Found our API endpoints documentation here

This API uses a "Bearer" token for authentication that you need to put in the headers.

"Authorization": "Bearer [your-token]" // Your token without the square brackets

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Postman

If you want to use Postman for instance to make your requests, here is where your Bearer token must be :


Retrieve your API token

You can retrieve your API token in your Edusign admin platform in the "Applications" section.

You will need to create a private application first in order to access your API key :

You can manage your API key(s) from the dedicated section in the details of your app :

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API tutorials


API rate limit

For the proper functioning of the server, we apply a limit on the use of the API.

The server authorize 480 requests per minute, above we delay the traffic (requests are still executed but with 100 ms of incremental delay).

Some heavy requests are limited to 24 requests per minute, with a slow down, requests are still executed but with a delay (referenced to with a red dot in the API Documentation).


Custom rate limit

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Custom demands

If you need custom rate limit, custom endpoints or further help, you can contact our technical team.


Maintenance window

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Maintenances

Due to maintenance or update operations, the API may not work on Saturdays 4PM to 10PM (UTC +1) for several minutes at a time.