Open Food Facts Authentication API
Endpoints for user authentication and session management.
Open Food Facts Authentication API is one of 46 APIs that Open Food Facts publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Authentication. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and a changelog.
This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 5 base URLs: https://world.openfoodfacts.net, https://world.openfoodfacts.org, http://localhost:8080, https://api.folksonomy.openfoodfacts.org, http://localhost:8000.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 3
Open Food Facts Authentication API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the cookie as session (cookieAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as User-Agent (userAgentAuth).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2PasswordBearer) using the password flow.
cookieAuth— Session cookie containing user ID, username, and session token. The value is structured as: userid&username&usersession&sessiontoken e.g. "userid&exampleuser&u…userAgentAuth— Identification using the User-Agent header. This is recommended in all requests so that we can contact you if there are issues. If we cannot identify the sourc…
Paths & Operations 3
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints for user authentication and session management.
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Body_authentication_auth_post (6 properties), ValidationError (3 properties), TokenResponse (2 properties), HTTPValidationError (1 property). 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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