OAuth 2.0

OAuth2.0

ShoppinPal API used OAuth2.0 over SSL for authentication and authorization which is pretty much an industry standard.

Access tokens

To use the ShoppinPal API, your application must send an access token in an Authorization header with each request. You may choose to retrieve the access token using the client_credentials grant.

Header Key	Header Value
`Authorization`	OAuth Access Token which is generated using the `access-token` endpoint. (Format - `Bearer <insert_token_here>`)

Client Credentials Grant Flow

If you're not familiar with this workflow, we suggest you read this article from Auth0.

Follow the below recipe to get an access_token.

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OAuth 2.0 with client_credentials

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