OAuth

OAuth is an open standard for authorization used with many popular APIs such as Twitter and Facebook. It provides a means for applications and robots in case of Kofax RPA to access data or perform actions on behalf of the user without having direct access to the user login credentials. For example, a robot can use Twitter API to extract the most recent mentions of a user, such as @Kofax, using access tokens provided by that user but without having explicit access to @Kofax Twitter password.

Management Console is used to generate access tokens that are stored securely in a keystore. The access tokens can be passed on as input to robots in a schedule. As always, the robots that perform the actual API calls and handle the returned data are created in Design Studio.