Getting started with Adobe Firefly Services

The first step in accessing the Firefly Services API is getting authenticated. For that, you will need an access token and an API Key. The steps below will show you how to generate an access token and make your first API call.

Overview

Here are the steps to get started with the Firefly Services APIs. If you have already received your credentials, jump straight to our Firefly API Quickstart guide to begin interacting with Firefly Services.

Gaining access to the Adobe Developer Console

Enterprise customers must be assigned the System Administrator or Developer role in the Adobe Admin Console to access the Adobe Developer Console.

Identify an Adobe Admin in your Enterprise. This may be as simple as checking the notes in your Adobe account. Adobe’s Solution Consultants will also typically have an administrator contact for the organization.
Have the Admin set up either System Administrator or Developer roles for users who will need to generate API keys. Alternatively, ask your Admin to generate the keys if they feel elevating roles is too risky. If your Admin does this for you, skip to the Make your first API Call section.
If your Admin allows you to generate your API keys, the Admin will also need to assign Firefly - Firefly Services to you as a product in the Admin Console.

Generate an API Key and access token from the Adobe Developer Console

If you have already been provisioned with access through your organization, you will need to create a project in developer console.

Step 1: Create a project

Go to https://developer.adobe.com/console/home and sign in to the Developer Console.
Select Create new project under the Quick start section on the middle of your screen:

Create a new project

Step 2: Add API to your project

Choose Add API.
Select one of the required APIs, say, Firefly - Firefly Services and click Next:

Step 3: Set Credentials

Default choice for type of authentication is made for OAuth Server-to-Server and you should keep it.
Give your credential a name.
Click Next.

Set credentials

Step 4: Select Product Profiles

Depending on the API you add, you may be asked to select product profiles to assign to your credential. These product profiles govern what data your application can/cannot access in your organization.

Select the Product Profiles and click Save Configured API.

Click Add to Project to add more APIs to the product profile in the same project. Click Edit product profiles to add APIs to a different product profile in the same project.

Add to Project

Repeat Step 2 until you have added all these APIs:

Firefly – Firefly Services
Lightroom - Firefly Services
Photoshop - Firefly Services
Content Tagging - Firefly Services

Step 5: Generate access token

Access tokens can be generated or refreshed in two ways:

Manual generation: Click Generate an access token for quick experimentation using the Developer Console
Programmatic generation: Click view the cURL command to learn how to generate access tokens programmatically. Learn more about how to do it.

Scopes

Scopes that are added for your application define what actions or data the clients are allowed to access. Security best practices recommend that your application generates an access token with the least number of scopes it needs to work correctly.

Click View scopes per service to understand the services and scopes associated with it.

scopes

Sample cURL command for generating an access token programmatically:

curl -X POST 'https://ims-na1.adobelogin.com/ims/token/v3' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-d 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<YOUR_CLIENT_ID>&client_secret=<YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET>&scope=openid,AdobeID,session,additional_info,read_organizations,firefly_api,ff_apis'
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curl -X POST 'https://ims-na1.adobelogin.com/ims/token/v3' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-d 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<YOUR_CLIENT_ID>&client_secret=<YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET>&scope=openid,AdobeID,session,additional_info,read_organizations,firefly_api,ff_apis'

API Key

Grab your API KEY (Client ID) from the same screen.

The selected APIs will be listed in the left-hand side under APIS.

Generate Access Token

Congratulations! You have just generated an access token.

Make your first API call

Once you have created your access token, you can follow the steps below to make your first API call.

Open your terminal and paste the code below.
Replace the variables <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN> with the token you generated on the Adobe Developer Console.
Replace <YOUR_CLIENT_ID>. You can find this on the same page you generated your token on.
Once all variables have been replaced you can run the command.

curl --request GET \
  --url https://image.adobe.io/pie/psdService/hello \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
  --header "x-api-key: <YOUR_CLIENT_ID>"
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curl --request GET \
  --url https://image.adobe.io/pie/psdService/hello \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
  --header "x-api-key: <YOUR_CLIENT_ID>"