Purpose

This API helps to generate an Oauth2 access token. It uses the Bearer authentication scheme to access the CrediLinq APIs. Access tokens must be cached in your platform and used until expiration.

Prerequisite

• Make sure that you reach out to the CrediLinq Tech team to set up and get your Client ID and Secret Key.

Flow

Send a POST request with the following parameters to the authorization server:

• client_id with the client's ID
• client_secret with the client's secret

The authorization server will respond with a JSON object containing the following properties:

• token_type with the value Bearer
• expires_in with an integer representing the TTL (in seconds) of the access token (Default is 8 hours)
• access_token a JWT signed with the authorization server's private key

The access_token should be used in the Authorization header together with the Bearer challenge to authenticate all the requests.