OAuth device flow

🔥More exclusive content: Twitter: Website: Blog: 00:00 What is the OAuth device code flow? 00:23 OAuth device grant walkthrough 02:37 Conclusion The OAuth device flow is optimized for input constrained devices such as Smart TVs. The idea that the device displays a code that the user must enter at at a specific URL. The device initiates the authorization flow and starts polling the authorization server and includes the client id, the device code in the request. The user then takes another device for example a smartphone, logs into his account and enters the user code. Once the user code has been entered and the app has been authorized, the device gets an access token. Typically the device will also ask for an access token because this whole process is quite cumbersome for the user
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