OAuth clients

Use the OAuth clients page to manage clients that are authenticated using Management Console.

An OAuth client is an entity in RPA that robots use to connect with a service provider.

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

When you configure an OAuth client to use the Management Console, access tokens are generated by a service provider. The Management Console stores the access tokens in the Vault.

Within the Vault, the OAuth access token data type represents OAuth 2.0 access tokens. An OAuth 2.0 access token is a string used by a robot acting as an OAuth client to authenticate when making HTTP requests.

Use the OAuth clients page to:

• View OAuth clients

• Configure OAuth clients

• Authorize OAuth clients

• Retrieve access tokens

• Edit or delete OAuth clients

See also Service providers.