POST oauth2/token
Allows a registered application to obtain an OAuth 2 Bearer Token, which can be used to make API requests on an application's own behalf, without a user context. This is called Application-only authentication.
A Bearer Token may be invalidated using oauth2/invalidate_token. Once a Bearer Token has been invalidated, new creation attempts will yield a different Bearer Token and usage of the previous token will no longer be allowed.
Only one bearer token may exist outstanding for an application, and repeated requests to this method will yield the same already-existent token until it has been invalidated.
Successful responses include a JSON-structure describing the awarded Bearer Token.
Tokens received by this method should be cached. If attempted too frequently, requests will be rejected with a HTTP 403 with code 99.
Resource URL¶
https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token
Resource Information¶
| Response formats | JSON |
| Requires authentication? | Yes - Basic auth with your API key as your username and API key secret as your password |
| Rate limited? | Yes |
Parameters¶
| Name | Required | Description | Default Value | Example |
| grant_type | required | Specifies the type of grant being requested by the application. At this time, only client_credentials is allowed. See Application-Only Authentication for more information. | client_credentials |
Example request¶
POST /oauth2/token HTTP/1.1
Host: api.twitter.com
User-Agent: My Twitter App v1.0.23
Authorization: Basic eHZ6MWV2R ... o4OERSZHlPZw==
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 29
Accept-Encoding: gzip
grant_type=client_credentialsExample response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
...
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 140
{"token_type":"bearer","access_token":"AAAA%2FAAA%3DAAAAAAAA"}