Method: projects.tenants.createSessionCookie

Creates a session cookie for the given Identity Platform ID token. The session cookie is used by the client to preserve the user's login state.

HTTP request

POST https://identitytoolkit.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{targetProjectId}/tenants/{tenantId}:createSessionCookie

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
targetProjectId

string

The ID of the project that the account belongs to.
tenantId

string

The tenant ID of the Identity Platform tenant the account belongs to.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "idToken": string,
  "validDuration": string
}
Fields
idToken

string

Required. A valid Identity Platform ID token.
validDuration

string (int64 format)

The number of seconds until the session cookie expires. Specify a duration in seconds, between five minutes and fourteen days, inclusively.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of CreateSessionCookieResponse.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/identitytoolkit
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.