This document describes how client can obtain access token for authenticating a user to use Amino APIs.
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- A User can be authenticated by using our access token, client should first get the access token using our login end point. See Login and authentication#/User%20Authentication/loginUser
- The client uses this API provided above to authenticate with the service and retrieve session parameters and access tokens used for authenticating with APIs. A logged in client may call this API to retrieve tokens without supplying the authorization parameters.
- All new AminoTV APIs only support token auth. Some users are logged in by cookie, for such cases access tokens can be obtained by cookie <-> token exchange process, See https://confluence.aminocom.com/display/MAPI/Cookie-token+exchange for the exchange process.
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This feature is available only after the User Profile Profiles feature is in place |
- Every user has an associated default profile ID, which is available as an identity in the token with the name
user_profile_id, to get a profile based access token use the end point User profiles#/Authentication%20token/getProfileAuthToken
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