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Application authorization #

The client credentials flow is the simplest OAuth 2 grant, with a server-to-server exchange of your application's client_id, client_secret for an OAuth application access token. In order to execute this flow, your application will send a POST requests with the Authorization header that contains the word Basic followed by a space and a base64-encoded string client_id:client_secret.

Authorization: Basic Base64(client_id:client_secret)

HTTP request #

Production: POST https://api.dwolla.com/token

Sandbox: POST https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/token

Including the Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded header, the request is sent to the token endpoint with grant_type=client_credentials in the body of the request:

Request parameters #

ParameterRequiredTypeDescription
client_idyesstringApplication key. Navigate to https://dashboard.dwolla.com/applications (production) or https://dashboard-sandbox.dwolla.com/applications-legacy (Sandbox) for your application key.
client_secretyesstringApplication secret. Navigate to https://dashboard.dwolla.com/applications (production) or https://dashboard-sandbox.dwolla.com/applications-legacy (Sandbox) for your application secret.
grant_typeyesstringThis must be set to client_credentials.

Response parameters

ParameterDescription
access_tokenA new access token that is used to authenticate against resources that belong to the app itself.
expires_inThe lifetime of the access token, in seconds. Default is 3600.
token_typeAlways bearer.

Request

Raw
POST https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/token
Authorization: Basic YkVEMGJMaEFhb0pDamplbmFPVjNwMDZSeE9Eb2pyOUNFUzN1dldXcXUyeE9RYk9GeUE6WEZ0bmJIbXR3dXEwNVI1Yk91WmVOWHlqcW9RelNSc21zUU5qelFOZUFZUlRIbmhHRGw=
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=client_credentials

Successful response

bash
{
  "access_token": "SF8Vxx6H644lekdVKAAHFnqRCFy8WGqltzitpii6w2MVaZp1Nw",
  "token_type": "bearer",
  "expires_in": 3600
}
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