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Session Auth: How response from main auth url can be used to call access_token in Test url call?

adilalich
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Hi, I am creating a custom zapier integration. Authentication is Oauth 2.0 but grant_type = client_credentials. 

Article attached suggested I should use Session Auth in my case which is what I am doing.

ISSUE: My main Auth url is working fine. It returns a status code 200. I want to use the response returned, specifically access_token field from auth url response in the HTTP header of my Test API call. How can I use response from Auth url in Test API url?

HTTP Header should be like this: Authorization: Bearer your-access_token-goes-here
What I did: Authorization: Bearer {{bundle.authData.sessionkey}}

Best answer by adilalich

After doing some experiments I was able to figure it out on my own. 

Here’s what I did:

  • I created a computed field and gave it a key access_token (naming convention same as required by the API). 
  • Fetch the access_token (results.access_token) and stored it in a field access_token in Auth url section
  • used {{bundle.authData.access_token}} to use the access_token in the HTTP Header of Test API call.
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    Wemakefuture
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    • August 25, 2020

    What did you sofar do? 

     

    Did you use the get module? 

    Did you use custom code? (Js/python)?

    https://www.wemakefuture.com/
    adilalich
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    • August 25, 2020

    No, nothing out of the texbook. I am creating this integration through Platform UI. I am using JavaScript but I haven’t written any custom code. 

    adilalich
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    • August 26, 2020

    After doing some experiments I was able to figure it out on my own. 

    Here’s what I did:

    • I created a computed field and gave it a key access_token (naming convention same as required by the API). 
    • Fetch the access_token (results.access_token) and stored it in a field access_token in Auth url section
    • used {{bundle.authData.access_token}} to use the access_token in the HTTP Header of Test API call.
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    • August 26, 2020

    Thanks for sharing the solution @adilalich !

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