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POST
/
identities
/
{identity_id}
/
tokenize
Tokenize identity
curl --request POST \
  --url http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize \
  --header 'X-blnk-key: <api-key>'
import requests

url = "http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize"

headers = {"X-blnk-key": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {'X-blnk-key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_PORT => "5001",
CURLOPT_URL => "http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"X-blnk-key: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

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

func main() {

url := "http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize"

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("X-blnk-key", "<api-key>")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize")
.header("X-blnk-key", "<api-key>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:5001/identities/{identity_id}/tokenize")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-blnk-key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
Use blnk.identity.tokenize to tokenize several identity fields.
1

Call the method

blnk.identity.tokenize
response = blnk.identity.tokenize(
  "idt_3b63c8da-af29-4cc3-ad38-df17d87456e6",
  {
    "fields": ["FirstName", "EmailAddress"],
  },
)
FieldTypeDescription
idstrIdentity ID.
fieldsstring[]PascalCase field names to tokenize. At least one required.
2

Confirm tokenization

Check the response message, then use get tokenized fields to verify which fields are protected.
3

Response

201 Created
{
  "message": "Fields tokenized successfully"
}
FieldTypeDescription
messagestrConfirmation that the fields were tokenized.

PII tokenization

Setup, secrets, and how tokenization works.

Tokenize multiple fields

HTTP request and response schema.

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