# Access Token not working
**URL:** https://forum.pirsch.io/t/access-token-not-working/90
**Category:** General
**Created:** [June 14, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.pirsch.io/t/access-token-not-working/90 "2024-06-14T18:07:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Shubham](https://forum.pirsch.io/u/Shubham)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.pirsch.io/t/access-token-not-working/90/1 "2024-06-14T18:07:04Z")
When using an access token instead of client oAuth keys getting the following error
```auto
{
validation: null,
error: ['token contains an invalid number of segments']
}
```
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### Author:  [@Marvin](https://forum.pirsch.io/u/Marvin)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.pirsch.io/t/access-token-not-working/90/2 "2024-06-15T09:24:42Z")
What endpoint did you use the access key for? The error message is a JWT (JSON Web Token) error, which is only used in the case of oAuth.
Access keys are write-only and cannot be used to read statistics.
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### Author:  [@Shubham](https://forum.pirsch.io/u/Shubham)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.pirsch.io/t/access-token-not-working/90/3 "2024-06-15T14:06:45Z")
Hi @Marvin I was using it to create a domain
```auto
POST /api/v1/domain
```
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### Author:  [@Marvin](https://forum.pirsch.io/u/Marvin)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.pirsch.io/t/access-token-not-working/90/4 "2024-06-15T14:24:07Z")
Sorry, that won’t work. Access keys are write-only. For the user-level client you’ll have to use oAuth and create it on the account settings page.
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