Help Center Sessions

The Sessions API gives all users access to their help center CSRF token for the current session.

Show Help Center Session

• GET /api/v2/help_center/sessions

Allowed for

• Anonymous users

Code Samples

curl

curl "https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/sessions" \
  -v -H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}"

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/sessions"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer ${authToken}")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/sessions")
		.newBuilder();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer ${authToken}")
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/sessions',
  headers: {
	'Authorization': 'Bearer ${authToken}',
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/sessions"
headers = {
	"Authorization": "Bearer ${authToken}",
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/sessions")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Authorization": "Bearer ${authToken}", "Content-Type": "application/json")
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "current_session": {
    "csrf_token": "2hYE_3L80UfRteoLN1Z1eDA06lmzHlSyS"
  }
}