# Authorizing Yate to Search Beatport

Beatport requires that you grant permission to Yate in order to perform searches.

The process involves the running of an authorization process which will require you to log into Beatport and grant permission to Yate to process searches. If you have not registered with Beatport you will be required to do so.

The process is quite simple. You will be directed to the Beatport site where you can log in and authorize Yate. The Beatport site will respond with token data. Simply copy all the displayed data to the system clipboard and hit Next. When the process is completed, Yate will have an access token which it can use to access the Beatport API. If all goes according to plan, you should only have to run the authorization process once.

If for any reason the authorization process has to be rerun you can manually run the process via the Yate>Force Beatport Authorization... menu item.

At any time the validity of Yate's access token can be validated via the Yate>Validate Beatport Access Token... menu item. Note that this is primarily for our testing purposes.

There are special considerations if you are using Yate on more than one Mac. When using Yate on more than one Mac do not authorize Yate on both Macs. The second authorization will invalidate the first. In order to get around this problem perform the following steps:

- Authorize your first Mac
- Select the Yate>Export Preferences... menu item
- When the export dialog appears make sure you select the Beatport Access Token item. Note that for the purposes of this procedure no other export types need be selected.
- Export the preferences.
- Ensure that the exported file is accessible by your second Mac.
- On the second Mac select the Yate>Import Preferences... menu item and import the file you exported on the first Mac.
- You should now be able to access Beatport on both Macs.

If you are synching preferences between two Macs, make sure that you enable the Beatport Access Token items on both Macs via Preferences-General-Auto import/export preferences file-Configure.