View a client secret

As noted in the preceding section, client secrets are typically required when making API calls: with very rare exceptions, API operations wonโ€™t authenticate you unless you can supply both the client ID and the client secret. That leads to at least one problem: how do you determine the client secret for a property? After all, even in the Console UI that value seems pretty secretive:

And before you try, no, selecting and copying the obfuscated password wonโ€™t work: you can select the string of dots, but you canโ€™t copy them.

So whatโ€™s the solution here? Actually, there are two solutions. If all you want to do is copy the secret, then within Manage Properties, click the Copy secret to clipboard icon:

You can then paste the secret into whatever tool youโ€™re using to make API calls.

And if you want to actually see the client secret, just click the eyeball icon:

That puts the client secret on full display:

To hide the secret, just click the eyeball icon a second time.