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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.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://api.afero.io
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Resource Areas
1

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.

Authentication 1

OAuth 2.0 token issuance for Afero Cloud API access.

POST
/oauth/token
OAuth Authentication
createAccessToken body → 200401

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.

Error
object
The Afero Cloud API error envelope, observed live on api.afero.io (2026-08-02).
6 properties
AccessToken
object
4 properties
TokenRequest
object
3 properties 3 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

afero-authentication-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Afero publishes across the network.

Afero Cloud Users API
Afero Cloud Devices API
Afero Cloud OTA Firmware API
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