Authenticate an impersonation token to impersonate a User using the Stytch API
Basic authentication header of the form Basic <encoded-value>, where <encoded-value> is the base64-encoded string username:password.
Request type
The User Impersonation token to authenticate. Expires in 5 minutes by default.
Successful response
Globally unique UUID that is returned with every API call. This value is important to log for debugging purposes; we may ask for this value to help identify a specific API call when helping you debug an issue.
The unique ID of the affected User.
The user object affected by this API call. See the Get user endpoint for complete response field details.
A secret token for a given Stytch Session.
The JSON Web Token (JWT) for a given Stytch Session.
The HTTP status code of the response. Stytch follows standard HTTP response status code patterns, e.g. 2XX values equate to success, 3XX values are redirects, 4XX are client errors, and 5XX are server errors.
If you initiate a Session, by including session_duration_minutes in your authenticate call, you'll receive a full Session object in the response.
See Session object for complete response fields.