Refresh the Access Token

Access tokens expire in an hour. Client applications must make the following request and use their user's refresh token to generate another access token:

Request URL

https://<base_accounts_url>/oauth/v2/token?refresh_token=<refresh_token>&client_id=<client_id>&client_secret=<client_secret>&grant_type=refresh_token

Request Method

POST

where,

base_accounts_url	The base URL of your Zoho Account For example, it's accounts.zoho.com if your account belongs to Zoho's US DC.
refresh_token	The refresh token that belongs to the requesting user, which is returned when the access_type=offline is included in the query string of the authorization request
client_id & client_secret	The client credentials that was generated when you registered the client application

Understanding the response

The success or failure of the API will be conveyed in its response. The response of the generate token API will include:

access_token
The access token that the requesting user will need to access the resources that correspond to the scopes that were included while making the authorization request.
expires_in
The time (in seconds) after which the access token will expire.
api_domain
The domain where the API calls are to be made for the requesting user. Though the value will contain the zohoapis domain, the client application must use your Creator account's base URL in its API requests. For example, if your account belongs to Zoho's US DC, the client must make the API requests at creator.zoho.com
token_type
This indicates the generated token's type. The value Bearer indicates that it's an access token.

Note

A maximum of 5 refresh tokens can be generated per minute.
A user in an organization can have a maximum of 20 refresh tokens, and each refresh token can have a maximum of 30 active access tokens at any time.
When the request is made to generate the 31st access token, the authorization server will delete that user’s first access token. Similarly, when the request is made to create the 21st fresh token, the authorization server will delete that user’s first refresh token.

Possible Errors

invalid_client
- Ensure that you have passed the right client ID and client secret
- Ensure that you have used the same Zoho account base URL that you used while making the authorization request
invalid_code
- The authorization code that you generated may either have expired or already been exchanged for an access token
- The refresh token that was used to generate the access token may either have expired or been revoked

Sample Request

Copiedcurl "https://accounts.zoho.com/oauth/v2/token?refresh_token=1000.3ph66exxxxxxx6ce34.3c4xxxxxxxxxf&client_id=1000.xxxxxxxxxxHF2C6H&client_secret=xxxxxxxxx4f4f7a&grant_type=refresh_token"
- POST

Sample Response

Copied{
    "access_token": "1000.6jh82dxxxxxxxxxxxxx9be93.9b8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxf",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "api_domain": "https://www.zohoapis.com",
    "token_type": "Bearer"
}

Though the api_domain key in the response contains the zohoapis domain, the client application must use your Creator account's base URL in its API requests. For example, if your account belongs to Zoho's US DC, the client must make the API requests at creator.zoho.com