---
id: "twilio_account_sid"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["secrets"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/twilio_account_sid"
---

# Twilio Account SID (`twilio_account_sid`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

String identifier (SID) of a Twilio account: AC followed by 32 hexadecimal digits. It is the user name of Twilio API requests and is used together with the account's auth token or with an API key, so an Account SID in code or data often means that a secret is nearby.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens) (secrets)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$
```

## Examples

- `SMb7c0a2ce80504485a6f653a7110836f5` (invalid example) — Message SID from the Twilio glossary (prefix SM)

## Supported by tools

- `datadogsds`
- `githubsecretscanning`
- `pywhat`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/what-is-a-sid>
- other: <https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat/blob/main/pywhat/Data/regex.json>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/twilio_account_sid.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/secrets/twilio_account_sid.yaml>