Verify Clerk client

Verify a client JWT from the Clerk Frontend API.

← All Clerk endpoints · Capability overview

POST/v1/clerk/clients/verify

https://api.vee3.io/v1/clerk/clients/verify

5 tokens

Verify a client JWT from the Clerk Frontend API.

Authorization

Send your API key in the Authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

MCP

The same capability is available as an MCP tool on Vee3 hosted MCP.

Tool name

clerk.verify_client

Parameters2 fields

clerk_instance_idstringOptional

Clerk instance id (ins_...) from clerk.get_connected_accounts. Omit to use the default connected account.

tokenstringRequired

JWT representing the active Clerk client.

Response7 fields

clientobject

6 fields

Verified client object from the Backend API.

idstring

Client id.

session_idsarrayitems

1 field

Session ids associated with this client.

session_idstring

Clerk session id (sess_...).

last_active_session_idstring

Most recently active session id for this client.

created_atinteger

Unix timestamp in milliseconds when the client was created.

updated_atinteger

Unix timestamp in milliseconds when the client was last updated.

HTTP errors: clerk_connection_required, clerk_connection_not_found, clerk_connection_invalid, validation_error, unauthorized, payment_required

Example request

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.vee3.io/v1/clerk/clients/verify"
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}
payload = {
    "token": "m2m_example_token_secret"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

Example responses1 example

200Verified Clerk client from a JWT.

verified_client.json

{
  "client": {
    "id": "client_2abc123",
    "session_ids": [
      "sess_2abc123"
    ],
    "last_active_session_id": "sess_2abc123",
    "created_at": 1710000000000,
    "updated_at": 1710000000000
  }
}