POST oauth2/token
token

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_credentials

Example 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"}