# API Credentials for Offline Jobs

## Parameters

### durationSeconds
- **Type:** int32  
- **Range:** 900 to 43200  
- Description: The duration, in seconds, that the credentials should remain valid. Value must be between 900 and 43200 seconds. If not provided, defaults to 3600 seconds.

### job_type
- **Type:** string  
- **Required:** Yes  
- Description: The type of offline job to initialize. Supported values are: place_match, transaction_match.

### X-Places-Api-Version
- **Type:** string  
- **Enum:** required  
- Defaults to: 2025-06-17  
- Description: The version of the API to use.

## Responses

### 200 success
**Object:**  
- access_key_id: string  
- secret_access_key: string  
- session_token: string  
- job_id: string  
- input_uri: string  
- output_uri: string

### 400 Bad request

### 500 Internal server error

## Example Request

```bash
curl --request POST \
     --url https://places-api.foursquare.com/offline-jobs/initialize \
     --header 'X-Places-Api-Version: 2025-06-17' \
     --header 'accept: application/json'
```

## Example Response

```json
{
  "access_key_id": "string",
  "secret_access_key": "string",
  "session_token": "string",
  "job_id": "string",
  "input_uri": "string",
  "output_uri": "string"
}
```