Search API authentication methods

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This page covers authentication methods specific to the Search API. For authentication methods used by other Coveo platform APIs, see Platform API authentication methods.

The Coveo Search API supports the following authentication methods:

API key authentication is the most basic way to authenticate callers.
Search token authentication implies creating special, expiring tokens which can temporarily grant user-specific privileges.
Claims authentication lets users access content indexed from a SharePoint server.
SAML authentication is a standard XML-based protocol which is used by many single sign-on (SSO) systems.