Create session

POST

Create a new session for a given user. This will return a refresh token that can be used to impersonate the user.

This endpoint expects an object.

user_idstringRequired

The ID of the user, or the special value me for the currently authenticated user

expires_in_millisdoubleOptionalDefaults to 31536000000

is_impersonationbooleanOptional

Successful response

refresh_tokenstring

access_tokenstring

1	import requests
2
3	url = "https://api.stack-auth.com/api/v1/auth/sessions"
4
5	payload = { "user_id": "3241a285-8329-4d69-8f3d-316e08cf140c" }
6	headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
7
8	response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
9
10	print(response.json())