Afero Cloud Authentication API
The OAuth 2.0 token endpoint for the Afero Cloud. A partner authenticates with HTTP Basic using the OAuth Client ID and Client Secret issued in the Afero Profile Editor, posts the end-user credentials with grant_type=password, and receives a bearer access token (scope "partner account") that expires in approximately four hours and is sent on every subsequent Afero Cloud API request.
Afero Cloud Authentication API is one of 4 APIs that Afero publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Authentication and Security. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.afero.io.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Afero Cloud Authentication API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
basicAuth— HTTP Basic with the partner OAuth Client ID as username and OAuth Client Secret as password, used only on POST /oauth/token.
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
OAuth 2.0 token issuance for Afero Cloud API access.
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Error (6 properties), AccessToken (4 properties), TokenRequest (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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