# Retrieving Emporix MCP Token

The MCP token is required to open a communication channel between Emporix API and the AI tools. Follow these steps to generate the necessary API keys and retrieve the Emporix MCP token.

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**Add API keys**

Open the [Emporix Developer Portal](https://app.emporix.io/). Navigate to the **Manage API Keys** option and choose the **Add custom API**.
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**Define custom API keys**

Provide a name for the custom API keys and select the necessary scopes for your tenant:

* MCP scope

  <figure><img src="/files/FGQu1P2PVYZhWkkNfJ8S" alt="MCP Server scope" width="700"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
* additional scopes that you want to grant to your agent - for example, for an AI Agent that is to manage products in Emporix system, grant the scopes related to products:

  <figure><img src="/files/dqF07rJWH5HEE2bkweAa" alt="Product scopes for MCP Server" width="700"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

When done, **Generate** new API keys.

As a result, the generated credentials appear in the Custom API list:

<figure><img src="/files/fOxHAajucrfAO5vxHakx" alt="API Keys for Product MCP" width="700"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
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**Encode credentials**

Encode the `Client ID` and `Secret` to Base64 using the following string format: `clientId:secret`.

Example commands according to your operating system:

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{% tab title="MacOS" %}

```
echo -n "clientId:secret" | base64
```

Example:

```
echo -n "X9S0SDt1LiIs7tSt7JpTOZAUBhtXR3VUxDwyChwFAkxFIfwe:uNW6iZklaUVKMpooBOle41rie99cjOBIPB1ktDSXmd4RH1P1r1Pl8WPr2CJXG4LM" | base64
```

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{% tab title="Windows" %}

```
[Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("clientId:secret"))
```

Example:

```
[Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("X9S0SDt1LiIs7tSt7JpTOZAUBhtXR3VUxDwyChwFAkxFIfwe:uNW6iZklaUVKMpooBOle41rie99cjOBIPB1ktDSXmd4RH1P1r1Pl8WPr2CJXG4LM"))
```

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{% endtabs %}

The resulting output is the encoded **MCP token**, that looks similar to this:

```
WDlTMFNEdDFMaUlzN3RTdDdKcALOWkFVQmh0WFIzVlV4RHd5Q2h3RkFreEZJZndlOnVOVzZpWmtsYVVWS01wb29CT2xlNDFyaWU5OWNqT0JJUEIxa3REU1htZDRSSDFQMXIxUGw4V1ByMkNKWEc0TE0=
```

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**Store the token**

Copy or save the token so that you can use it to enable communication between Emporix and your AI tools.
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{% hint style="info" %}
To see the examples of enabling the Emporix MCP Server, check out these documents:

* [Connecting Emporix MCP Server to Cursor](/agentic-commerce-intelligence/mcp-in-emporix/mcp/connect-cursor.md)
* [Connecting Emporix MCP Server to OpenAI](/agentic-commerce-intelligence/mcp-in-emporix/mcp/connect-openai.md)
  {% endhint %}


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```
GET https://developer.emporix.io/agentic-commerce-intelligence/mcp-in-emporix/mcp/retrieving-mcp-token.md?ask=<question>
```

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