REST API integration
Clerk REST API integration for Draftbit
User authentication and management
What is Clerk?
Clerk's Backend REST API — manage users, sessions, and organizations from server-side code. Add your secret key to issue session tokens and look up users.
Use Clerk with Draftbit
- Built-in endpoints: List users, Get user, Update user, Delete user, List sessions.
- Bind any Clerk endpoint to a screen, list, form, or AI agent action.
- Authentication is configured once per app — secrets stay on the server.
- Add custom request and response transforms without forking Clerk's client library.
Example
clerk-example.ts // Example: fetch from Clerk
const response = await fetch("https://api.clerk.com/v1/users", {
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_CLERK_TOKEN",
},
});
const data = await response.json();Use cases
- Add sign-up, sign-in, and password reset flows to a mobile app
- Gate premium features behind authenticated user sessions
- Sync user profiles across web and native clients
Authentication
Authentication uses the `Authorization` header. Paste your key once in Draftbit and every request to Clerk carries it automatically — secrets stay on the server side.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Clerk REST integration?
Clerk's Backend REST API — manage users, sessions, and organizations from server-side code. Add your secret key to issue session tokens and look up users.
How do I connect Clerk to a Draftbit app?
Go to Integrations and then REST APIs in your Draftbit app and pick Clerk from the catalog. Paste your API key or token and fill in any base URL variables, such as a project ID or host. The endpoints are then available across your screens and to the AI agents while you build.
Does Clerk require authentication?
Most Clerk endpoints expect a key or token sent as a header. The preconfigured endpoints include List users, Get user, Update user, Delete user.
What can I build with Clerk and Draftbit?
Most teams use Clerk as a authentication service for a mobile or web app. You might use Clerk to add sign-up, sign-in, and password reset flows to a mobile app, or to gate premium features behind authenticated user sessions.
