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Create a custom API client that limits access to a subset of the endpoints available to your account.

  1. Launch [Identity and Access Management](🔗). In Control Center, select <<PORTAL_ICON_ROOT>> <<CHAR_MENU_DELIMITER>> **ACCOUNT ADMIN** <<CHAR_MENU_DELIMITER>> **Identity & access**.

  2. Under **Users and API Clients**, click **Create API client**.

    

    If you don't have access to the Identity and Access Management tool, contact your local <<PORTAL_NAME>> admin or your Akamai account team for assistance.

  3. Click **Advanced**.

  4. In the **Details** section, review the client’s name, description, and notification list. You can change this information at any time.

  5. Select a level of access for your API client.

    • `Select APIs`. This option lets you change the access level of the API services you choose for the client. You can choose `READ-WRITE` or `READ-ONLY` and add up to 99 different API services.

    • `Restrict Groups`. Select this option to change which groups you can use with this client.

    • `Let this client manage multiple accounts`. Select this option to let the client make calls to one or more of the accounts you manage. For details, see [Manage many accounts with one API client](🔗). This option is only visible if you can manage multiple accounts.

    • `Purge selections`. Shows the current purge method for the CCU APIs. To select or change the purge methods for your client, click `Manage purge options`, make your selections, then click `Submit`. This option is only visible if you have access to the CCU APIs.

  6. Click **Create API client**. The credential for the APIs you use and your client token appear in the **Credentials** section. The credential includes the client token and client secret you need to authenticate Akamai API requests.

  7. Download or copy and paste this information into a text file for all automated programs. The client secret is unique to the request and available once. The `client token`, `base URL`, and `access token` remain visible in the client details. To get another client secret, click `Create credential`.

  8. To configure your API client credentials and make API calls on Akamai's network, see [Add credential to .edgerc file](🔗).



You can add credentials to your `.edgerc` file, if you need different permissions for multiple APIs. This is optional. If you do this, you'll need to separate each set of credentials with a `[header]` as shown. Refer to the [EdgeGrid libraries](🔗) for code syntax to specify the section in each programming language.