I have used simple REST APIs in the past without authentication, and I am trying to wrap my head around OAuth2. The API I want to use is not Google. I have seen a few oauth2 nodes for node-red that implement the authorization, getting and refreshing the token. Is there any particular node that you …

Thanks, I will give this a try.

I have it working with Net Atmo based on bakman2's flow. works perfectly.

I only had time to look into this, but I still feel a bit lost. Looking at the documentation of the API, I see an authorize and token endpoint: [image] I assume in the Oauth configuration this goes into the the two URLs. But I have no idea how to get the Client ID and secret. And if I had the ID…

Ok that sounds like oauth and not oauth2.

Yes, I was thinking the same, but all the links in the document point to oauth2. I think it is probably unfortunate that they used "oauth" in the URI and not "oauth2" and "v1" probably just the version of their interface: [image]

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I have posted a flow a while back that should be able to help you to get going.

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