Register a new account

Registering a new account with email and password can provide you with a set of API credentials.

Register

POST https://api.photoncommerce.com/api/v4/register

Register using your email address and a password to receive a Client ID, Client Secret and an API Key

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Accept	string	Set to "application/json"
Content-Type	string	Set to "application/json"

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
password	string	Passwords must be atleast 10 characters long, must contain atleast 1 digit and 1 special character
email	string	your email address

200

{"client_id":"<your client ID>","api_key":"<your API Key>","secret_key":"<your client secret>","username":"<your email>","password":"<your password>"}

403

{"registration":"failed","reason":"username already exists"}

***Note: When the registration succeeds, you will receive an email containing a verification link. Click on it and you're good to go! Before verifying your email, you will not be able to use these credentials.

cURL

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d '{"email": "<your-email>", "password": "<your-password>"}'  "https://api.photoncommerce.com/api/v4/register" 

Python

import requests

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json'
}

payload = {
    'email':'your-email-address',
    'password':'must-be-secure-and-valid-1'
}

response = requests.post('https://api.photoncommerce.com/api/v4/register', headers=headers, json=payload)
r = response.json()
try:
    for key in r:
        print(f'{key}: {r[key]}')
except:
    print(f'Registration failed, response from API: {r}')
    

NodeJS

var request = require('request');

var headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json'
};

var dataString = '{"email": "<your-email>", "password": "<your-password>"}';

var options = {
    url: 'https://api.photoncommerce.com/api/v4/register',
    method: 'POST',
    headers: headers,
    body: dataString
};

function callback(error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        console.log(body);
    }
}

request(options, callback);

Java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Scanner;

class Main {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		URL url = new URL("https://api.photoncommerce.com/api/v4/register");
		HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
		httpConn.setRequestMethod("POST");

		httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
		httpConn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");

		httpConn.setDoOutput(true);
		OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(httpConn.getOutputStream());
		writer.write("{\"email\": \"<your-email>\", \"password\": \"<your-password>\"}");
		writer.flush();
		writer.close();
		httpConn.getOutputStream().close();

		InputStream responseStream = httpConn.getResponseCode() / 100 == 2
				? httpConn.getInputStream()
				: httpConn.getErrorStream();
		Scanner s = new Scanner(responseStream).useDelimiter("\\A");
		String response = s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
		System.out.println(response);
	}
}