WebResource: getToken

Requires authorization

Gets a verification token for the authenticated user to place on a website or domain. Try it now.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/siteVerification/v1/token

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/siteverification
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/siteverification.verify_only

Request body

In the request body, supply data with the following structure:

{
  "site": {
    "type": string,
    "identifier": string
  },
  "verificationMethod": string
}
Property name Value Description Notes
site object Container for the address and type of a site for which a verification token will be generated.
site.type string The type of resource to be verified.

Acceptable values are:
  • "ANDROID_APP"
  • "INET_DOMAIN"
  • "SITE"
site.identifier string The site identifier. If the type is set to SITE, the identifier is a URL. If the type is set to INET_DOMAIN, the identifier is a domain name.
verificationMethod string The verification method for the Site Verification system to use to verify this site or domain.

Acceptable values are:
  • "ANALYTICS":  Sites only
  • "DNS": Use DNS_TXT instead
  • "DNS_CNAME": Domains only
  • "DNS_TXT": Domains only
  • "FILE": Sites only
  • "META": Sites only
  • "TAG_MANAGER": Sites only

Response

If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:

{
  "method": string,
  "token": string
}
Property name Value Description Notes
method string The verification method that you selected in the request.

Acceptable values are:
  • "ANALYTICS"
  • "DNS"
  • "DNS_CNAME"
  • "DNS_TXT"
  • "FILE"
  • "META"
  • "TAG_MANAGER"
token string The string to place on the authenticated user's site, using the selected verification method. For more information, see Verification methods and tokens in the Getting Started document.

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