Get Current Customer | BigCommerce Developer Center

Identify signed-in customers securely by requesting and decoding a BigCommerce-generated JWT.

The response body will contain a JWT.

Note

The Send a Test Request feature is not currently supported for this endpoint.

Query parameters

app_client_idstringRequired

This is the client ID of an app-level API account you generate when you create an app in the Developer Portal.

Response

A JWT to decode using the client secret that corresponds with the app client ID you sent as a query parameter.

After you decode the JWT, the payload resembles the following:

1   {
2     "customer": {
3       "id": 4927,
4       "email": "john.doe@gmail.com",
5       "group_id": "6",
6     },
7     "iss": "bc/apps",
8     "sub": "abc123",
9     "iat": 1480831863,
10     "exp": 1480832763,
11     "version": 1,
12     "aud": "6sv16tfx3j5gsopm42ss5dd67g2srvq",
13     "application_id": "6sv16tasdgr2b5hs5dd67g2srvq",
14     "store_hash": "abc123",
15     "operation": "current_customer"
16   }

A JWT to decode using the client secret that corresponds with the app client ID you sent as a query parameter. After you decode the JWT, the payload resembles the following: ```json { "customer": { "id": 4927, "email": "john.doe@gmail.com", "group_id": "6", }, "iss": "bc/apps", "sub": "abc123", "iat": 1480831863, "exp": 1480832763, "version": 1, "aud": "6sv16tfx3j5gsopm42ss5dd67g2srvq", "application_id": "6sv16tasdgr2b5hs5dd67g2srvq", "store_hash": "abc123", "operation": "current_customer" } ```

1	import requests
2
3	url = "https://your_store.example.com/customer/current.jwt"
4
5	querystring = {"app_client_id":"app_client_id"}
6
7	response = requests.get(url, params=querystring)
8
9	print(response.json())

1	{
2	"customer": {
3	"id": 4927,
4	"email": "john.doe@gmail.com",
5	"group_id": "6",
6	},
7	"iss": "bc/apps",
8	"sub": "abc123",
9	"iat": 1480831863,
10	"exp": 1480832763,
11	"version": 1,
12	"aud": "6sv16tfx3j5gsopm42ss5dd67g2srvq",
13	"application_id": "6sv16tasdgr2b5hs5dd67g2srvq",
14	"store_hash": "abc123",
15	"operation": "current_customer"
16	}