I'm building an app for personal use. The app simply screen-scrapes the StackExchange homepage and checks whether I am currently logged in to StackExchange. This works fine.

However, if the app determines I am not logged in I would like the app to log me in. I have had a look at the authentication documentation, but to be honest I'm not sure what to do with that information. I think I need to use the implicit path but don't know what to supply for the required fields, i.e. client_id, scope, redirect_uri, state.

Any pointers would be gratefully received.