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AOL OpenID Connect API

OpenID Connect userinfo and JWKS endpoints

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

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

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 1 schema. 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 1 schemas 2 GET

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 OpenID Connect 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 — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

OpenID Connect 2

OpenID Connect userinfo and JWKS endpoints

GET
/openid/v1/userinfo
OpenID Connect UserInfo
getUserInfo → 200401
GET
/openid/v1/certs
JSON Web Key Set
getJwks → 200

Schemas 1

The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is UserInfo (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

UserInfo
object
OpenID Connect standard claims returned by Yahoo
8 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

aol-openid-connect-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs AOL publishes across the network.

Yahoo Developer Network (formerly AOL Developer)
AOL OAuth2 API