Scopes - PSNTools | Docs

Placeholder. The API is not live yet and the scope names below are illustrative, not final.

Scopes limit what a key can do. You pick them when creating a key, and a request that needs a scope the key doesn’t hold returns 403.

Available scopes

Scope	Grants
`account:read`	Look up public account data — online ID, region, level
`trophy:read`	Read trophy lists and trophy levels
`avatar:read`	Search the avatar catalogue and read avatar metadata
`avatar:write`	Add and activate avatars on the authenticated account
`profile:write`	Modify the authenticated account’s profile
`analytics:read`	Read the authenticated account’s purchase history

Requesting scopes

Scopes are attached to the key, not to the individual request — there is no per-call scope parameter.

curl https://api.psntools.com/v1/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer psn_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -d '{ "scopes": ["account:read", "trophy:read"] }'

Least privilege

Write scopes like profile:write and avatar:write change the account they act on. Only grant them to a key that actually needs them, and keep read-only integrations on read-only keys.

Scopes and membership tiers

Some scopes will only be available on higher membership tiers, mirroring what each tier unlocks on the website.

Related topics

PSNTools API Authentication