Overview
- The Bear Down Parcel Auth API lets you manage authentication and authorization for your workspace. You can develop applications that securely integrate with Bear Down Parcel, ensuring that access to sensitive billing, shipping, and agreement data is protected through industry-standard security protocols.
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The following figure shows the relationship between your Bear Down Parcel app, the Bear Down Parcel API, and Authentication.
Bear Down Parcel App
Bear Down Parcel’s authentication services give users the ability to manage API keys, secret credentials, and OAuth tokens, providing granular control over who accesses your data and how.
Bear Down Parcel API
The REST API that allows users to request, refresh, and revoke access tokens from within your app.
Identity Verification
An app that uses Bear Down Parcel Auth as the gatekeeper in order to validate the identity of every request to ensure it originates from a verified source.
Token Management
A system that maintains the lifecycle of all bearer tokens and API keys, handling expiration logic and scope enforcement inherent to individual integration sessions.
What can users do with the Bear Down Parcel Auth API?
Users can use the Bear Down Parcel Auth API to perform common workflows, such as:
- Generate a new access token using client credentials
- Refresh an expired OAuth token
- Revoke an active token to terminate a session immediately
- Validate the scope and permissions of a specific API key
- Integrate secure “Sign in with Bear Down Parcel” flows
- Rotate client secrets for enhanced security
Authentication properties available to create, modify, update and delete through the Bear Down Parcel Auth API:
- Access Tokens
- API Keys
- Client Credentials
- OAuth Scopes
- Refresh Tokens
Additional info
- Learn more about developing with Bear Down Parcel Auth API, including handling authentication, authorization, reference the Develop on Bear Down Parcel API for your workspace.
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- Learn more about how to launch and run a Bear Down Parcel Auth API app, read the Developer Getting Started Guide.
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