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title: Search token
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# Search token
A {doctitle} is a special [JSON web token](https://jwt.io/) which temporarily grants the [privilege](https://docs.coveo.com/en/228/) to execute [queries](https://docs.coveo.com/en/231/) as a specific [user](https://docs.coveo.com/en/250/) and log [Coveo Analytics events](https://docs.coveo.com/en/260/).

Using a search token to [authenticate](https://docs.coveo.com/en/2120/) a query can also enforce a specific [search hub](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1342/) or [query pipeline](https://docs.coveo.com/en/180/) for that query, and append a filter expression to its [constant query expression (`cq`)](https://docs.coveo.com/en/179/).