Register Admin Key

Service version: 1
Last edit: 2022.09.01

Purpose

This endpoint is used to register a customer.

  • Before a customer can use the service, or act as an Admin for Geofencing endpoints, they must register.
  • Registering creates a configuration for the customer and creates an Admin Key, used to create/edit/delete Location History data.

Request data

HTTPS method: POST

  • Constants and parameters enclosed in curly brackets { } must be replaced with their values.
  • Please see the following Request parameters section with the required and optional parameters tables for these values. The generic URL format is as follows.

URL request format

post
URL request format
https://{baseURL}/geofencing/{versionNumber}/register?key={Your_API_Key}

curl command request format

post
curl command request format
1curl -XPOST "Content-type: application/json" -d
2'{
3 "secret": "your_secret"
4 }'
5'https://{baseURL}/geofencing/{versionNumber}/register?key={Your_API_Key}'

POST request body format

post
POST request body format - JSON
1{
2 "secret": "secret_key"
3}

Request parameters

The following table describes the parameters that can be used in a request.

  • Required parameters must be used or the call will fail.
  • Optional parameters may be used.
  • The order of request parameters is not important.

Note: There are no optional parameters in this endpoint.

Required parameters

Description

baseURL
string

The base URL for calling the API.
Value: api.tomtom.com

versionNumber
string

Service version.
Value: 1

key
string

An API Key valid for the requested service.
Value: Your API Key.

Response data

Response body

The following JSON code block demonstrates a successful response from the API server.

Response body format - JSON
1{
2 "adminKey": "admin_key"
3}

Response fields

The following table describes all of the fields that can appear in a response.

Primary fields

Description

adminKey
string

A generated Admin Key that can be used to administer geofencing objects/fences/projects.

Example

Register a customer account using a passed secret value.

HTML Method: POST

post
POST URL request example
https://api.tomtom.com/geofencing/1/register?key=yPMFGLgBoejrRoWS8qYS

POST request body example

post
POST request body example - JSON
1{
2 "secret": "My very secret secret"
3}

Response body example

Response body example - JSON
1{
2 "adminKey": "UpP9m2jg4PU6fWAFnvskU33CwfW24e17P0oTC5byUfUzMElS"
3}