Authentication

Most queries to the HERE Tracking REST API require an access token obtained via authentication.

Authenticating a user

A user must have an active Tracking project membership in order to be able to authenticate to the HERE Tracking API.

Users sign-in to the HERE Tracking API via an API call, which creates a bearer token that is used for authentication purposes in subsequent API calls.

Requests for platform projects can only be made with a project scoped token. After a bearer token has been obtained from the login API, it has to be scoped to project using tokenExchange API.

See an example of a user login in the getting started section of this guide.

Authenticating an application

To use an application to access the HERE Tracking API, it must be a member of a Tracking project.

To gain an access token for your application use application's OAuth 2.0 credentials to do authentication. For instructions, see the client token example in the getting started section of this guide.