Request an OAuth 2.0 access token, using the Client Credentials Grant.

Request Headers

The client ID and secret should be provided as using HTTP Basic authentication:

Authorization: Basic {encoded}

Where encoded is the base64 encoding of {client_id}:{client_secret}.

Alternatively, these credentials can be included in the request body as per Section 2.3.1.

Request Body

The grant type and desired scopes (optional) should be provided via the body (as application/x-www-form-urlencoded):

grant_type=client_credentials&scope=read+write

Response

A TokenResponse object.

Should an error occur, the returned Error object will use the appropriate error code as per Section 5.2.