Getting your BC

Getting your BC_TOKEN

In this topic, you will learn how to get your BC_TOKEN, which you will need to authenticate the request to create client credentials using the OAuth API.

Overview

The best, first step to understand the information in this document is to look at the OAuth Overview if you have not done so yet.

Your BC_TOKEN is a unique, anonymous identifier for you as a Brightcove user. Apart from its existence in a backend Brightcove system, it is set as a cookie when you login to Studio so that Studio knows your role and what accounts you have access to. This is all transparent and requires no action on your part.

The use of the BC_TOKEN for you is in authenticating an OAuth API request to create client credentials.

Steps

Get your `BC_TOKEN`

You will need to login to Studio to get your BC_TOKEN.

Login to Studio as you normally do.
With any page in Studio open, open the developer tools for the browser, go to the Console, and paste in the following code: var cookiesArray = document.cookie.split(";"), cookiesObj = {}, i, tmpArray = []; for (i = 0; i < cookiesArray.length; i++) { tmpArray = cookiesArray[i].split("="); if (tmpArray[0].indexOf('BC_TOKEN') > -1) { cookiesObj.BC_TOKEN = tmpArray[1]; } } window.prompt("BC_TOKEN:", cookiesObj.BC_TOKEN);
and press return.
You should see a prompt appear that contains your BC_TOKEN:

BC_TOKEN
If for some reason you did not get your BC_TOKEN using the previous steps, just go to the Console, type document.cookie, and press return.
All cookies for the page will be returned in a semi-colon-separated list. Find the BC_TOKEN cookie in the list, and copy the value:

BC_TOKEN in Chrome Developer Tools"

Next steps

See one of the following topics for the steps needed to create client credentials