{"id":14678,"date":"2026-09-01T15:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/?docs=api\/pontiac-bidder-api-campaign-tutorial\/authentication"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:59:31","slug":"authentication","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/?docs=api\/pontiac-bidder-api-campaign-tutorial\/authentication","title":{"rendered":"Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before making requests to the Pontiac Bidder API, authenticate with Pontiac to retrieve an authorization token.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send a <code>POST<\/code> request to: https:\/\/api.pontiac.media\/auth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Request<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>curl -X POST \"https:\/\/api.pontiac.media\/auth\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application\/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"username\": \"user1\",\n    \"password\": \"myPassword\"\n  }'<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Response<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A successful response will include an authToken. Pass this token in the auth header for all subsequent requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>{\n  \"timestamp\": \"2026-09-01T12:00:00Z\",\n  \"response\": {\n    \"authToken\": \"YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN\"\n  },\n  \"accountStatus\": true,\n  \"seatId\": 1000\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The returned token must be included in the <code>auth<\/code> header for subsequent requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, to retrieve an existing Bidder Advertiser:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>curl -X GET \\\n  -H \"auth: YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN\" \\\n  \"https:\/\/api.pontiac.media\/rtb\/advertisers\/1234\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you switch seats during a session, the authorization token will change. Use the new token returned by the seat-switch request for subsequent API calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":14675,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_is_vendor_doc":"0","footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-14678","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14678\/revisions\/14680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14675"}],"next":[{"title":"Creating a New Advertiser","link":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/?docs=api\/pontiac-bidder-api-campaign-tutorial\/creating-a-new-advertiser","href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14681"}],"prev":[{"title":"Tutorial Overview","link":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/?docs=api\/pontiac-bidder-api-campaign-tutorial\/tutorial-overview","href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.pontiac.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}