Start authorization flow

GET

https://api.light.inc/oauth/authorize

Redirects the user to the authorization page to start the OAuth V2 authorization flow

Authorization

Send one of these on every request. See Authentication for how to get credentials.

API key
Basic authentication header of the form Basic <api_key>, where <api_key> is your api key.
Bearer token

Query parameters

redirect_uri string
state string
client_id string

Response

application/json;charset=UTF-8This endpoint returns no content.

cURL

curl -X GET "https://api.light.inc/oauth/authorize" \
  -H "Authorization: Basic YOUR_API_KEY"

JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://api.light.inc/oauth/authorize", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Basic ${process.env.LIGHT_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.light.inc/oauth/authorize",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Basic {os.environ['LIGHT_API_KEY']}",
    },
)
data = res.json()