GET authorisation/token

Request an access token using the password credential grant process. Visit the documentation area on authentication for detailed explanation. Requires that the grant request be performed using a GET request and URL parameters. This is NOT the preferred method and using a POST request is preferred

Request Information

URI Parameters

Name Description Type Additional information
grant_type The OAuth grant type. For password credential grant, this must be 'password'. string

Required
username The username. For example, someone@emailhost.com. string

Required
password The password of the user. string

Required
scope The scope requested. For example, 'full'. string

None.

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

Object
Name Description Type Additional information

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample: 
{
  "access_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.DItMjAxNSAwNTowNjoyOS43NDE0NzYiLCJyb2xlIjoiYWNjZXNzIn0",
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 10800,
  "refresh_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MioIn0.4fEXVBxeFQB3YkfSQ-W1Wp5XiZJv2jsivcYR2fP73PQ",
  "scope": "full fileid:15431 fileid:14078 fileid:2045"
}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample: 
<OAuthAccessTokenGrant xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <access_token>eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.DItMjAxNSAwNTowNjoyOS43NDE0NzYiLCJyb2xlIjoiYWNjZXNzIn0</access_token>
  <token_type>Bearer</token_type>
  <expires_in>10800</expires_in>
  <refresh_token>eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MioIn0.4fEXVBxeFQB3YkfSQ-W1Wp5XiZJv2jsivcYR2fP73PQ</refresh_token>
  <scope>full fileid:15431 fileid:14078 fileid:2045</scope>
</OAuthAccessTokenGrant>