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What exactly is a valid OAuth domain name for registering your app?
The OAuth Domain is either:
A valid domain that you own and control, and that is hosted somewhere the client can reach. Say, for example that you owned unicorns.mil.
See this answer and this answer ...
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Unable to get access token
Refer to the Stack Exchange API, Authentication docs. It looks like you are trying to authenticate using either a server you do not control, or a local server that is not on the public internet.
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Can the redirect_uri contain port number?
You got that error because you set the OAuth Domain like example.com:8080, not the redirect_uri. That's not how you configure non-standard ports; see below.
The redirect uri, with port, feature now ...
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How can I quickly get an access token for personal use?
It's possible to authenticate yourself via the command line; there's no need to set up a website or so.
Open the application page via https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth and make sure the option 'Enable ...
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As a user, where in the web UI could I find all the tokens I have granted for Stack Apps?
Go to your profile: https://stackapps.com/users/current
Click the "Edit Profile & Settings" tab: https://stackapps.com/users/edit/current
Click "Applications" on the left sidebar (no handy ...
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Getting "application not configured for implicit grants" error trying to setup website
Yes, it can be annoying that the API docs, the javascript SDK, and the settings pages use the terms:
"Explicit"
"Implicit"
"Server side"
"Client side"
a little interchangeably. (The first 2 are ...
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Refresh expired acess token basics
Dealing with token expiration is pretty simple.
When a token is/goes bad then, when you make an API call that uses the token, you will get a JSON response like this:
{
"error_id": 403,
"...
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Creating personal applications using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API
If you need something for personal use, it doesn't really matter. You can even use example.com, as long as the site doesn't redirect and change the URL. You'll need a browser and a tool like curl. ...
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Cannot get redirect_uri to work
There have been no reported changes to the API, officially for many years, (unofficially since January).
But, frankly that script's approach should have never worked. OAuth credentials are sent to:
&...
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Implicit OAuth flow puts the access token in the hash?
No, you can't get the access_token in the query/search part of the URL. This would be a security leak that would allow 3rd parties to see your access_tokens on the web.
Reference:
OAuth2.0 Implicit ...
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Find out whether a user has association bonus
Yes, you can find out if the user has received the association bonus using the API. It's a bit clunky though.
However, as we discovered, "association bonus rights" are rather meaningless at the ...
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Access token keeps being invalidated
Turns out this is completely my fault :/
I overlooked the expiry aspect of the access token which meant that I got the default 86399 seconds (~24 hours), which meant my users had to get a new access ...
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Is there a way to specify how long I want an access token to be valid for?
Yes, I always get 86399 too. And, no, you can't specify an interval other than no_expiry.
But you can call /access-tokens/{accessTokens}/invalidateDoc at whatever interval you wish.
So, for less ...
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iOS Client for stackoverflow always throws redirect_uri not a valid uri
That error means either that you've misconfigured the app or that the authentication call is incorrect.
Note that stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success is not a valid redirect_uri irregardless.
You ...
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Same access token between different fetch_token requests
Yes, each time you invoke stackexchange.com/oauth/ you will get a fresh access token, even though old ones may still be valid.
For example:
Go to /me/inboxLivedoc and hit Get Token twice, recording ...
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No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' for oauth/access_token
The question is not clear enough.
You appear to be trying to use jQuery to do explicit OAuth from a web page. If so, this is not allowed.
Explicit OAuth is for servers. You are not running that ...
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How to use /me to display my profile data in StackExchange API?
For read requests, you must send the token (and key) in the URL. For example:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/me?site=stackoverflow&key=dp55hR5Wr9UhOJReA6F2gg((&access_token=...
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I have created a lot of access_token with no_expiry scope while experimenting. How do I delete them?
This is what the /apps/{accessTokens}/de-authenticate route does.
Passing valid access_tokens to this method causes the application that created them to be de-authorized by the user associated with ...
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`redirect_uri` is not under the registered domain for this application
I don't know about that Ruby/Gem, but your app registration is not correct.
You need to configure your app for explicit OAuth2, per this other answer, except enter localhost instead of example.com.
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OAuth redirect_uri to https://stackexchange.com/oauth/login_success?xxx strips part of the query string
I don't think that's a bug, for implicit OAuth. Anyway, if I understand RFC 6749 correctly, that is not how you are supposed to do such extra checks.
Use the state parameter. And this works.
For ...
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App post got deleted
Why is my app post deleted?
My guess is that an automated process did this. You can still view the post, just copy the URL from the 'Manage your applications' page. If it has a banner 'deleted by ...
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How to register a Stack App with explicit OAuth 2.0 flow to a third party site?
Note that a URI is not a domain, but this seems to be a common mistake when setting up OAuth2.
Also reference:
`redirect_uri` is not under the registered domain for this application
What exactly ...
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How to get access token from the hash?
Refer to the API Authentication docs; there are a great many things wrong with the URL in the question (at least 5).
For starters, it's to the wrong path. stackoverflow.com/oauth/authorize gives ...
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Localhost test Stack App authentication: error 'redirect_uri' does not match
I get the reason:
Do not use gem 'omniauth-stackexchange', '~> 0.2.1' ,but instead of gem 'omniauth-stackexchange', git: 'https://github.com/nashby/omniauth-stackexchange.git'
The reason see this:...
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Getting an API key for an application without a server
You don't need a server to get an API key, or even to use OAuth2.
Set OAuth Domain to: stackexchange.com, and
Application Website to: https://stackapps.com/.
See this other answer for more ...
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The new implicit authentication dialog doesn't handle comma-delimited scopes
This appears to have been silently fixed, sometime in the last year.
Now, both:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth/dialog?client_id=1515&scope=read_inbox,write_access,private_info&redirect_uri=...
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oauth 2.0 based on stackexchange api and fetch user details
You can do this using the /me endpoint or the /me/associated endpoint.
/me
Returns the user associated with the passed access_token.
Use this if you want to get user info for a specific site (e.g....
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access_token not present in /oauth/access_token response
Unpack response content with $response->getBody()->getContents().
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
Route::get('/approve', function () {
header('Location: https://stackexchange.com/oauth?client_id=12345&...
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What token parameters to use for OAuth2 Authorizaton?
What software are you using?
Anyway, for a Desktop app, you almost always use the "Implicit" (Client side) procedure.
Configure your Stack app as shown in this answer.
That dialog appears to be set ...
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