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AOL OAuth2 API

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code grant endpoints

AOL OAuth2 API is one of 3 APIs that AOL publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include OAuth2. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.login.yahoo.com.

2 operations 2 paths 2 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.yahoo.com
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Bearer, OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 3

AOL OAuth2 API declares 3 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 3 scopes.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic authentication with base64-encoded clientid:clientsecret
  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 Bearer access token

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

OAuth2 2

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code grant endpoints

GET
/oauth2/request_auth
Authorization request
requestAuth 6 params → 302
POST
/oauth2/get_token
Token exchange and refresh
getToken body → 200400401

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are TokenResponse (6 properties), Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Error
object
2 properties
TokenResponse
object
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

aol-oauth2-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs AOL publishes across the network.

Yahoo Developer Network (formerly AOL Developer)
AOL OpenID Connect API