---
name: api-access
description: Obtain Airbyte Cloud API tokens via client credentials and call the public REST API.
---

# Airbyte Cloud API access

1. Sign up at https://cloud.airbyte.com/signup
2. Create an **Application** in Cloud settings (client_id + client_secret)
3. `POST https://api.airbyte.com/v1/applications/token` with JSON body:

```json
{
  "client_id": "<CLIENT_ID>",
  "client_secret": "<CLIENT_SECRET>",
  "grant-type": "client_credentials"
}
```

4. Call `https://api.airbyte.com/v1/...` with `Authorization: Bearer <token>`

Tokens expire in 15 minutes. See https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/using-airbyte/configuring-api-access