@re1nhart 

The supported authentication schemes for the Zapier Visual Builder here: https://platform.zapier.com/docs/auth#zapier-supported-authentication-schemes - I would recommend you start out with the Visual Builder if you’re a beginner

There’s a quick start guide here: https://platform.zapier.com/quickstart/project-structure that walks you through each step including setting up authentication.

If your API supports automated token refresh, you would be able to check the Automatically Refresh Token box when setting up Oauth 2, but I am not sure from your description which authentication scheme your API supports. 

I would highly recommend trying out the quick start guide to set up an integration with the example app used in the tutorial (Github), to understand the steps required - that will help greatly for trying to set up your own app down the line

@re1nhart Head to https://developer.zapier.com, click on start zapier integration and setup oauth 2.0. It should have option to refresh token

Hi @re1nhart and welcome to the Zapier platform!

Does your API provide a mechanism for token refresh? If not (in other words, if it always requires the six digit code to be manually input), then I don’t know of any way you could refresh the token in a Zap.

Let me know if your API does provide a way to refresh tokens.

Hope that helps, and let us know if you have any other questions!

After entering six digit code there is a basic JWT authorization process that has access and refresh tokens. Our API provides routes for refreshing both tokens

Hey @re1nhart :)

Let’s step back from the mobile app for a moment, and consider the following hypothetical:

• I am a user of your app, and I want to instruct the app to perform a task by sending an HTTP request to it’s API. In other words, I am not interacting with the mobile app at all.

In that scenario, what credentials need to be provided with that API request in order for it to be accepted and performed?

Assuming the answer to that is an `access_token`, the next question is how does a user get an `access_token`?

The answers to those questions will inform which Authentication Scheme should be selected for your Zapier integration. For example, if you select “OAuth v2” - you will then be able to define the Authorisation URL, Access Token Request, Refresh Token Request, and whether Zapier should automatically invoke that Refresh Token Request any time it receives an HTTP 401 response from your API.

I hope this helps to get you started, and if we can assist further please feel welcome to reach out :)