---
title: "Create"
method: POST
path: "/v1/magic_links"
tags: ["Magic"]
---

# Create

`POST /v1/magic_links`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.stytch.com`
- URL: `https://api.stytch.com/v1/magic_links`
- Auth: HTTP basic

Create an Embeddable Magic Link token for a User.

### Important usage notes

Carefully review the following notes before using Embeddable Magic Links:

* Embeddable Magic Link tokens are **sensitive values**. You should handle and store them securely.
* Authenticating an Embeddable Magic Link token will not mark any of a user's delivery factors (email address or phone number) as verified, since we cannot confirm how the token was sent to the user.
* Embeddable Magic Links are only available in our Consumer API, and not our B2B API.

When sending Embeddable Magic Links via email:

* Deliverability is paramount. Carefully test your email copy to ensure it reaches your users' inboxes. Small changes can result in your emails being sent to spam.
* In some cases, email security bots may follow links within incoming emails before your users open them. This consumes the Embeddable Magic Link token, preventing the user from logging in when they later click the link. Our Email Magic Links product automatically prevents this (details [here](https://stytch.com/docs/consumer-auth/authentication/magic-links/redirect-routing)). However, when sending your own emails containing Embeddable Magic Links, you'll be responsible for detecting and stopping bot traffic using tools like CAPTCHA or [Device Fingerprinting](https://stytch.com/docs/fraud-risk/device-fingerprinting/overview).

We also recommend checking out our [Trusted Auth Tokens](https://stytch.com/docs/consumer-auth/authentication/trusted-auth-tokens/overview) product, which is available in both our Consumer and B2B APIs and can be a better fit for some use cases.

## Request body

- ApiMagicV1CreateRequest: Request type
  - `user_id` string, required: The unique ID of a specific User. You may use an `external_id` here if one is set for the user.
  - `expiration_minutes` integer: Set the expiration for the Magic Link `token` in minutes. By default, it expires in 1 hour. The minimum expiration is 5 minutes and the maximum is 7 days (10080 mins).
  - `attributes` ApiAttributeV1Attributes
    - `ip_address` string: The IP address of the user.
    - `user_agent` string: The user agent of the User.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- ApiMagicV1CreateResponse
  - `request_id` string, required: Globally unique UUID that is returned with every API call. This value is important to log for debugging purposes; we may ask for this value to help identify a specific API call when helping you debug an issue.
  - `user_id` string, required: The unique ID of the affected User.
  - `token` string, required: The Magic Link `token` that you'll include in your contact method of choice, e.g. email or SMS.
  - `status_code` integer, required: The HTTP status code of the response. Stytch follows standard HTTP response status code patterns, e.g. 2XX values equate to success, 3XX values are redirects, 4XX are client errors, and 5XX are server errors.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-03-07** `110f26a94e5b`: 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-03-06** `9cab20b8eca7`: 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2025-09-17** `8270cf3a3d4c`: 3 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `401`
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `500`
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
- **2025-09-17** `864b9f438ac0`: 2 breaking
  - the `expiration_minutes` request property type changed from `string` to `integer`, and format from no format to `int32`
  - the `status_code` response's property type changed from `string` to `integer`, and format from no format to `int32` for status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/stytch/apis/stytch-api/changes/v1/magic_links/post.md)

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