WebResource: getToken

    • Retrieves a verification token for website or domain ownership verification upon authorization.

    • Supports various verification methods including ANALYTICS , DNS , DNS_CNAME , DNS_TXT , FILE , META , and TAG_MANAGER .

    • Requires specifying the site type ( SITE , INET_DOMAIN , or ANDROID_APP ) and identifier (URL or domain name).

    • Returns the selected verification method and the corresponding token to be placed on the site.

    • Authorization is required with the siteverification or siteverification.verify_only scope.

    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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