Use your Webex Teams Access Token As a best practice, you can store your Webex Teams access token 'credential' as an environment variable in your development or production environment. By default, webexteamssdk will look for a WEBEX_TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable when creating new connection objects. There are many places and diverse ways that you can set an environment variable, which can include: A setting within your development IDE A setting in your container / PaaS service A statement in a shell script that configures and launches your app It can be as simple as setting it in your CLI before running your script... $ WEBEX_TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token_here $ python myscript.py ...or putting your credentials in a shell script that you source when your shell starts up or before your run a script: $ cat mycredentials.sh export WEBEX_TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token_here $ source mycredentials.sh $ python myscript.py