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user2879493

Reputation: 13

How to use Curl to generate a public token in the backend with the plaid api without the front end?

I would like to be able to download transactions daily on my server using the plaid api. But according to plaid documentations the public/token/create has been deprecated. What I want to achieve is to be able to download transactions in the backend silently in my backend for a particular bank account. But, eventhough I succeeded in doing that in sandbox but it doesn't seem to be possible in production and development. Has anybody tried generate a public token exclusively from the backend with curl or other languages? if so, give some examples how I can achieve that.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 773

Answers (1)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1853

So, you need an public_token to exchange for an access_token in order to make API calls, and it is not possible to get a public_token for a live (non-Sandbox) account without using Plaid Link (the UI component where the user enters their credentials).

However, because an access_token does not typically expire, you generally need to only get one once. So if you are just building a script for personal use, it is a perfectly viable workaround to set up the Plaid Quickstart to run against Development, walk through it to get an access_token, copy and paste that access_token to some secure location where it is available to your GUI-free script, and go from there.

(/item/public_token/create being deprecated is somewhat orthogonal to your problem -- that endpoint could never be used to create an initial public token, it could only be used to update a pre-existing public token if you had one that stopped working.)

Upvotes: 1

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