Highrise Authentication Token (API) How To

January 15th, 2009 • How To, Screencasts

For Periscope Gadget to work with Highrise, a step needs to be taken in addition to supplying your username and password. As with Basecamp, an API switch needs to be flipped. In this case, the Highrise Authentication Token needs to be copied from your Highrise account and inserted into the settings for Periscope. The Token is 40 characters long and hexadecimal (numbers & letters A through F) — it’s an easy copy and paste. As always, we try to be as careful as possible when storing your sensitive information.

Here are the steps you’ll need to take, or just view the screencast below:

Login to your Highrise account using your customized URL. It’ll look something like http://your-account.highrisehq.com/
Click on the “My Info” link in the top right hand corner. You’ll be presented with the “User Account” tab of your own account.
Click on “Reveal authentication token for feeds/API” which will show you a yellow highlighted 40 character long hexadecimal string.
Copy this string to your clipboard.
Login to your Periscope Gadget account at http://periscopegadget.com/login using your Periscope email and password.
Add a new account by clicking on the “Add” link, or click on any of the pencils to edit a Highrise account that has already been setup.
Paste the token from your clipboard into the field labelled “Highrise API Token”.
Save your changes — you’re done!