Overview

Lightcast's complete collection of skills. This API exposes all of our skills along with their type and unique identifier. You can learn more about Lightcast's skills taxonomy here.

Content-type

Unless otherwise noted, all requests that require a body accept application/json. Likewise, all response bodies are application/json.

Authentication

All endpoints require an OAuth bearer token. Tokens are granted through our Authentication API at https://auth.emsicloud.com/connect/token and are valid for 1 hour. For access to the Skills API, you must request an OAuth bearer token with the scope lightcast_open_free or emsi_open.

Request

curl --request POST \
  --url https://auth.emsicloud.com/connect/token \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data client_id=CLIENT_ID \
  --data client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET \
  --data grant_type=client_credentials \
  --data scope=lightcast_open_free

Response

{
  "access_token": "<ACCESS_TOKEN>",
  "expires_in": 3600,
  "token_type": "Bearer"
}

Issuing requests with the header Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN> will grant you access to this API for the duration of the token. For continued access make sure to fetch a new token before time expires. See our Authentication guide for additional details.

Attribution

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