--- title: "First Look: Announcing API Authentication on Netlify" description: "Announce the first step in integrating OneGraph into Netlify by making multi-app service integrations easier: API Authentication, launching through Netlify Labs." source: "https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/11/17/first-look-announcing-api-authentication-on-netlify/" last_updated: "2026-07-10T18:16:24.000Z" --- One of the most tedious and frustrating challenges of building for the modern web is generating, managing, and protecting the various authentication tokens and access keys needed for third-party services. Today we’re announcing the availability of API Authentication on Netlify, available as a beta release on Netlify Labs. This feature introduces a streamlined approach to setting up the proper access scopes for third-party services and helps you manage them in a central location. No more clicking around multiple UIs trying to find the right settings tab — now Netlify gives you a unified process to get the right connection permissions for your app every time. To make it easier and faster for developers to bring services and data into their web apps, [we acquired OneGraph](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/11/17/netlify-acquires-onegraph-a-powerful-graphql-platform-for-connecting-apis-and-services/). OneGraph allows teams to focus on what’s important: delivering value to customers rather than writing “glue code” for all APIs and services they need to leverage in their web applications. As a first step in this direction, we’ve released API Authentication inside our in-app beta testing console, [Netlify Labs](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/03/31/test-drive-netlify-beta-features-with-netlify-labs/). To start, we’re enabling developers to simplify connections to the following services, and then use their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in Netlify Builds and Functions without having to write a single line of authentication code: - Stripe - Spotify - GitHub - Salesforce To get started, head over to [Netlify Labs](https://app.netlify.com/user/labs) and enable API Authentication: ![Enabling service connectors](/v3/img/blog/onegraph-api-auth-settings.gif) Once enabled, the “Settings” tab on the dashboard of each site will show a new section, also called API Authentication: ![Service Connectors in the site dashboard](/v3/img/blog/onegraph-enable-in-labs.gif) You can authenticate with any of the currently supported services by selecting the relevant scopes and clicking the “Connect” button: ![API Services](/v3/img/blog/onegraph-api-services.png) NOTE: During the initial preview, we’re exposing a subset of services, but we’ll be adding more all the time. If you have a service you need access to, [let us know](https://answers.netlify.com/t/founder-of-onegraph-here-hello-folks-and-api-authentication-beta/47479)! You’re done! For each of the authenticated services, you can now access the token in the embedded environment variables - either from the site build, or Netlify Functions. 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