Getting your Amber Electric API token

solarprod can use your real Amber Electric prices instead of guessing — but it needs a small piece of text from your Amber account called an API token. This page walks you through where to click.

Total time: about 2 minutes. You only do this once.

What the token does — and what it does not let us do

The token gives read-only access to your Amber account. We can:

See your current and forecast electricity prices.
See how much electricity your meter recorded recently.

We cannot:

Change anything about your account or contract.
See or change your bank or payment details.
Send messages on your behalf.
Sign you up for anything.

It’s the equivalent of a locked-in spectator pass. You can revoke it any time from the same page where you create it.

You need a computer (or laptop) for this

The Amber mobile app doesn’t have the developer setting — only the web version does. Even if you do everything else from your phone, the next steps need a computer browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox — any will work).

Steps

1. Open the Amber developer page

In your browser, go to:

https://app.amber.com.au/developers

If you’re not already signed in, Amber will ask for your normal email and password first. Use the same details you use for the Amber app on your phone.

2. Turn on Developer Mode

You should see a page with a toggle switch labelled “Developers Mode” (or just “Developer Mode”). Click the toggle so it flips to ON.

Don’t see the toggle? Click “Settings” in the menu on the left side of the page first — it should be one of those.

3. Generate a new token

A button labelled “Generate a new token” (or “Create token”) should appear once Developer Mode is on. Click it.

Amber will ask you to give the token a name. Anything is fine — just something memorable so you can find it later. For example:

solarprod test

Click “Generate” to confirm.

4. Copy the token straight away

A long string of random letters and numbers will appear on the screen. It looks something like this (yours will be different):

psk_abc123def456ghi789jkl012mno345pqr678stu901vwx234yz

Important: this is the only time Amber will show it to you. If you click away or refresh the page, the token disappears forever and you have to start over.

So right now, before doing anything else:

Triple-click on the token to highlight the whole thing.
Right-click → Copy (or Ctrl-C on Windows / Cmd-C on Mac).
Switch back to the solarprod tab — the Account page where you started. You should see a box labelled “Amber API token” with a Validate & list sites button under it.
Click inside the box and Paste (right-click → Paste, or Ctrl-V / Cmd-V).
Click Validate & list sites. Solarprod checks the token with Amber and shows the sites it can see.
Pick the site you want (most people only have one) and click Connect site.

That’s it! Solarprod is now using your real Amber prices.

What if I missed it?

No problem. Go back to the same page — app.amber.com.au/developers — click “Generate a new token” again, and a fresh one will appear. The old one is still valid; if you can’t see it, just make a new one and use that.

You’ll see all your tokens listed by name on the developer page afterwards — you can revoke any of them with a little ✕ or “Revoke” button if you ever want to take access back.

What happens next?

Once solarprod has your token, the calculator will use your real Amber prices to answer questions like:

Is the battery I’m thinking about actually worth it?
How large should my battery be?
When should my battery export for maximum revenue?

Especially valuable for the Maximise Charge strategy where outage readiness is traded off against peak-export earnings — your real tariff makes that trade-off concrete.

To disconnect it later, either:

Click Disconnect on the account page of solarprod, or
Go back to app.amber.com.au/developers and click Revoke next to the token you sent.

Either way kills the connection instantly.