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Wraps Exchange Access Token endpoint and gets a Stytch session from a trusted JWT.

Parameters

string
required
The access token to exchange for a Stytch Session. Must be granted the full_access scope.
number
required
Set the session lifetime to be this many minutes from now. This will return both an opaque session_token and session_jwt for this session, which will automatically be stored in the browser cookies. The session_jwt will have a fixed lifetime of five minutes regardless of the underlying session duration, and will be automatically refreshed by the SDK in the background over time.This value must be a minimum of 5 and may not exceed the maximum session duration minutes value set in the Frontend SDK page of the Stytch Dashboard.A successful authentication will continue to extend the session this many minutes.

Response

string
The unique ID of the Member.
string
The JWT for the new Stytch Session.
string
The secret token for the new Stytch Session.
string
The intermediate_session_token that should be passed into a secondary authentication endpoint, such as OTP authenticate, in order to receive a member session. The intermediate_session_token can also be used with discovery endpoints to join a different organization or create a new organization.If the member is fully authenticated, this field will be an empty string.
If the project is configured to use HttpOnly cookies, this field will always be an empty string.
boolean
Indicates whether the Member is fully authenticated. If false, the Member needs to complete an MFA step to log in to the Organization.
object
Information about the MFA requirements of the Organization and the Member’s options for fulfilling MFA. This field is only returned if the Member needs to complete MFA to log in to the Organization.
object
The new Stytch Session.
object
The Member object of the signed-in Member.
object
The Organization object of the Organization the Member has signed into.
string
Globally unique UUID that is returned with every API call. This value is important to log for debugging purposes; we may ask for this value to help identify a specific API call when helping you debug an issue.
number
The HTTP status code of the response. Stytch follows standard HTTP response status code patterns, e.g. 2XX values equate to success, 3XX values are redirects, 4XX are client errors, and 5XX are server errors.