Overview

The Greenshades API requires a security token in order to authenticate your API user as well as authorize what actions you may perform.

API Credentials

Upon establishing a relationship with Greenshades, you should receive a client id and secret as well as the available scope(s). You'll use these to request a security token. The Greenshades API utilizes the Client Credentials Flow to authorize API consumers.

Authenticating

The code example below will show you to authenticate and retrieve an access token using OAuth 2.0. You may also access our OpenID Configuration for more information.