Automate Secure API Access with Dynamic Token Management
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Streamline your API integrations by automatically managing and refreshing access tokens. This workflow ensures your applications always have valid credentials, preventing service interruptions.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow tackles a common challenge in API integrations: managing access tokens that expire. It intelligently checks for token validity and automatically refreshes it when needed, ensuring continuous and secure access to your APIs. By leveraging n8n's workflowStaticData feature, it stores the token and its refresh timestamp, persisting this crucial information across workflow executions. This robust solution minimizes manual intervention and maintains the operational integrity of your automated processes. The workflow is designed to be triggered by webhooks or schedules, making it adaptable to various integration scenarios.
Key Features
- Automated Token Refresh: Automatically obtains a new access token when the existing one is nearing expiration.
- Persistent Token Storage: Utilizes
workflowStaticDatato store the access token and its timestamp, ensuring persistence across workflow runs. - Conditional Logic: Implements an 'If' node to check token validity before making API requests.
- Webhook & Schedule Triggers: Flexible triggering options to integrate seamlessly into your existing infrastructure.
- Clear Workflow Documentation: Includes sticky notes for easy understanding and configuration guidance.
How To Use
- Initialize Static Data: The
1. initiate static datanode sets up the initialaccessTokenandtimestampinworkflowStaticDataif they don't already exist. - Check Token Validity: The
if token is validnode checks if the currenttimestampis older than 1 minute past the last refresh time. - Refresh Token (if needed): If the token is expired, the
get new accessTokennode makes an HTTP request to your API endpoint to fetch a newAccessToken. - Update Static Data: The
2. set token in static datanode updates theworkflowStaticDatawith the newAccessTokenand the currenttimestamp. - Continue Workflow: The
continue with valid tokennode acts as a placeholder for subsequent actions that require a valid access token. This node is reached whether the token was valid initially or just refreshed.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "7e7c2987-a7aa-4812-a8cf-8ede1407f5c5",
"name": "Automate Secure API Access with Dynamic Token Management",
"nodes": 14,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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