Connect your PlayStation account
Sony offers no approval screen to sites like ours, so you copy one short-lived value while signed in and paste it here.
Last reviewed 4 September 2026
PlayStation is the awkward one, and it is worth saying why before the steps: Sony has no approval screen for third-party sites. There is no "Sign in with PlayStation" button to send you to. So instead of approving us, you fetch one value from Sony yourself and hand it over.
The steps
- Sign in at playstation.com in the same browser.
- Open ca.account.sony.com/api/v1/ssocookie. It shows a short line of text, not a page.
- Copy the long value next to npsso — just the value, without the quotation marks.
- Paste it into the PlayStation box in Settings → Connections, straight away.
Paste it straight away
The npsso expires within minutes. One copied ten minutes ago into a tab you then forgot about will be refused, and so will one you copied, went to make coffee, and came back to. If it fails, reload the Sony page and copy a fresh value rather than reusing the one on your clipboard.
The other common slip is copying the whole line rather than the value: {"npsso":"…"} pasted in full will not exchange.
If it says PlayStation didn't say who you are
That one is ours, not yours. It meant we reached Sony, signed in successfully, and then failed to read your account back — a bug that made linking impossible for everyone who tried between the feature shipping and 4 September 2026. It is fixed. If you still see it, please tell us: we would want to know that day.
Other apps signed in to PlayStation
If Playnite, PS Profiles or anything similar holds a session on your PlayStation account, it is possible for the npsso to be rotated underneath you while you are copying it. We have not confirmed this happening here — the failures we investigated turned out to be our own — but if fresh tokens keep being refused, removing that app's access is a reasonable thing to try.
What we do with it
We exchange it once, immediately, for our own access token, and it is that token we keep — not the npsso. It is what lets us read your trophies and your played games.
Disconnecting
Press disconnect in Settings and the stored tokens are removed. Changing your PlayStation password also invalidates them on Sony's side, which is a perfectly good way to revoke access from outside our site.
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