generated: '2026-08-04'
method: searched
source: https://docs.pebblepost.com/
docs: https://docs.pebblepost.com/collection/58-performance-dashboard-access
# DERIVED FROM NOTHING MECHANICAL: PebblePost publishes no OpenAPI, so
# derive-authentication.py has no securitySchemes to read. Everything below was
# observed directly against live hosts or read from PebblePost's own help articles.
summary:
  types: [account-issued-identifier, out-of-band-credential-exchange, interactive-login]
  oauth2: false
  openid_connect: false
  api_key_self_serve: false
  public_api_reference: false
  note: 'PebblePost operates no public developer program. There is no self-serve API
    key issuance, no OAuth authorization server, and no published API reference. Every
    credential is issued or exchanged through a PebblePost account team.'
schemes:
- name: brand-id
  surface: PebblePost JavaScript Tag
  type: account-issued-identifier
  in: client-side-variable
  parameter: _pp.brid
  issued_by: PebblePost
  self_serve: false
  description: 'A PebblePost-issued Brand ID embedded in the site tag; it also selects
    the per-brand collector script path on cdn.pbbl.co. Not a secret and not an
    authenticated credential — it identifies the brand, it does not authorize a caller.'
  source: https://docs.pebblepost.com/article/6-pebblepost-javascript-tag-installation-guide
- name: shopify-private-app
  surface: Shopify data connector
  type: out-of-band-credential-exchange
  direction: inbound-to-pebblepost
  self_serve: false
  description: 'The brand creates a Shopify private application and sends the generated
    URL, key and password to their PebblePost Account Manager. PebblePost authenticates
    to Shopify with the brand''s credentials; the brand never authenticates to PebblePost.'
  source: https://docs.pebblepost.com/article/36-connect-pebblepost-to-shopify
- name: pdm-manager-login
  surface: PDM Manager (Performance Dashboard)
  type: interactive-login
  url: https://pdm.pebblepost.com/#/login
  self_serve: false
  description: 'Browser login to the PebblePost customer platform. Accounts are
    activated by PebblePost, not by self-registration; the help article covering access
    is an account-activation and password-help article, not a sign-up flow.'
  source: https://docs.pebblepost.com/article/61-account-activation-login-help
- name: api-gateway-token
  surface: api.pbbl.co
  type: unknown-bearer
  self_serve: false
  description: 'AWS API Gateway. Every path — including / and /openapi.json — returns
    HTTP 403 with {"message":"Missing Authentication Token"} and header
    x-amzn-errortype: MissingAuthenticationTokenException. The token type, header name
    and issuance flow are not published. Recorded as observed behaviour only; NOT an
    assertion about the scheme in use.'
  observed:
    http_status: 403
    body: '{"message":"Missing Authentication Token"}'
- name: platform-api
  surface: api.pebblepost.com
  type: undocumented
  self_serve: false
  description: 'An Express service. GET /health returns 200 {"status":"UP"}; every
    other probed path returns 404 with {"message":"Resource not found",
    "errorType":"ResourceNotFoundError"}. No authentication challenge was returned on
    any anonymous path, so the auth model could not be observed and is not asserted.'
  observed:
    health_status: 200
    unknown_path_status: 404
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-04'
  probes:
  - {url: 'https://api.pebblepost.com/health', status: 200}
  - {url: 'https://api.pebblepost.com/openapi.json', status: 404}
  - {url: 'https://api.pbbl.co/', status: 403}
  - {url: 'https://pdm.pebblepost.com/', status: 200}
  - {url: 'https://www.pebblepost.com/.well-known/openid-configuration', status: 404}
x-gap:
  - 'No published authentication reference of any kind. A prospective integrator cannot
    learn how to obtain a credential, which header carries it, or what its lifetime is
    without first talking to a salesperson. Publishing an auth page — even one that
    says "credentials are issued by your account team, sent as `Authorization: Bearer`"
    — would close the single largest gap in this profile.'