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shijia.me
Active Member
May 13, 2025
Question

Extended/No Expiration Personal access tokens

  • May 13, 2025
  • 18 replies
  • 1608 views
  • before 🤗

Previously, you could generate a [no expire] token

  • now 😔

If users rely on tokens to access the figma open api, forgetting to replace expired tokens can cause serious problems.

The expiration date of the limited period will cause the figma token to no longer have usage value.

 

18 replies

Claire_Denning_Sage
New Participant
October 17, 2025

I’m also finding the removal of this option to be a show-stopper. Please please bring it back!

 

anishp
New Member
October 29, 2025

​@ksn post IPO you stop caring about devs huh :( 

We basically can’t use any code connect or API features in any long lived pipeline unless we build our own agent to create new tokens at some cadence lol. I think you guys should monitor more for dropoff/usability, this is probably leading to a lot of companies being unable to use Figma’s APIs for a pretty dumb reason.

victor.nazareth
New Member
November 6, 2025

Hello, we should be able to at least have bot type accounts have a no-expiry token. By eliminating the no-expiry option, you now impose more work and convolution on maintenance of automation that takes place when using the Figma API. Please bring back the no-expiry option for bot-type accounts.

ekuersch
New Member
November 18, 2025

Hello, I’m also disappointed to see this feature go. We were about to launch a bunch of CI-optimized workflows for code connect, analytics, etc and the lack of a long-living token is a show stopper. Please consider bringing it back, at least for read-only permissions

Florian BURGEVIN
New Member
November 19, 2025

Hello.

We are stuck to generate automatically tokens via CI too.

Please reconsider read-only long lived tokens !

Filip Rec
New Member
November 27, 2025

This is absurd, it undermines all sorts of automated setups while providing no security gains whatsoever - in fact, it makes it worse by making us juggle tokens every couple of weeks. Please escalate this so that it becomes a priority.

Oliver Ullman
New Member
December 4, 2025

So infuriating how apathetic large companies get. They really couldn’t think of extending it for read-only? Figma: I know you think you’re the most important tool in the world, but if someone got READ ONLY access to mocks it’s not going to take down that company 🤣

shijia.me
shijia.meAuthor
Active Member
December 5, 2025

So infuriating how apathetic large companies get. They really couldn’t think of extending it for read-only? Figma: I know you think you’re the most important tool in the world, but if someone got READ ONLY access to mocks it’s not going to take down that company 🤣

 

R&Ds are all focused on more "important" things, such as Figma Make. 🤣