OAuth

OAuth is an industry-standard protocol for secure authorization and delegated access.

Frends offers seamless integration with OAuth, enabling you to effortlessly connect and automate data flows involving OAuth authentication and authorization.

Frends provides tasks for performing all core OAuth operations.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize OAuth integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends offers a wide range of tasks that facilitate integrations to a variety of systems and protocols.

Important note

Handling JWT tokens directly implies user authentication and authorizations. Those are complex topics and should be taken seriously. In most cases it is advisable to consider ready-made solutions for JWT token issuing and validation.

Frends has a built-in features for token validation and REST API call authentication and authorization. Those should be used instead of manual token validation inside of the process. Read more about Frends built-in features here.

Use cases

Below you will find typical use cases for OAuth integrations and how they are implemented in Frends.

Create a JWT token

By using the HTTP trigger and the CreateJWTToken task, we can create an integration that creates a JWT token in reply to token request over HTTP.

Create JWT token

Parse JWT token

By using the HTTP trigger and the ParseToken task, we can create an integration that parses an incoming JWT token.

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