OAUTH 2 returns html

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stserviceaccount asked Sep 9, '24 stserviceaccount commented Sep 16, '24

OAUTH 2 returns html

Hello,

Trying to access Clover's API's without using Flask or a web ui. When making a `get` Authorize request using the code below, I am getting a html response back instead of code to then be sent to the token endpoint to get the access_token. The app is created in the NA sandbox environment. The statusCode is 200. Am I missing something in the code?

import requests
import json

client_id = ''
client_secret = ''
url = f'https://apisandbox.dev.clover.com/oauth/v2/authorize?client_id={client_id}'

response = requests.get(url)
statusCode = response.status_code
code = response.text #returns html instead of code/url/token

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Answer 1 · 2024-09-09T22:14:06Z

stserviceaccount answered Sep 9, '24 stserviceaccount commented Sep 16, '24

After reading some posts, I understand that this authorization endpoint is for merchants to authorize our app, but my end goal is to only access clover's API's/data by passing in the relevant query parameters. Is that even possible without using flask/browser/redirect url's or via a (test)merchant logging in? Is it possible to directly access clover's api's?

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parquet76 commented · Sep 10 at 01:28 AM

The merchant must grant you access to their data which is what the oauth flow is for.

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stserviceaccount parquet76 commented · Sep 16 at 08:28 PM

Got it. Thank you!
I was hoping there was a way to access api's by just getting an accessToken without a merchant's manual authorization

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