By rogerchen
I would like to authenticate users through the API without having them go to their console to generate an API token if possible.
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Yes! The API can authenticate users with a standard OAuth 2 flow. Check out the developer documentation as well as this tutorial:
We also have a more general tutorial on OAuth that might be useful:
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