Auth0 Rules: access to access token from inside Rule code

zaid.huda · April 30, 2019, 4:04am

I need to use the user access token to access a third party API in the rule snippet. Is this possible?

konrad.sopala · April 30, 2019, 9:56am

It should be as you can access Context object property access_token using rules syntax. Here’s more on that:

Let me know if you have any more questions down the road!

zaid.huda · May 2, 2019, 3:43am

I tried context.access_token and context.accessToken. Their values are undefined and the token object respectively. I needed the actual access token to be used as Bearer token to access the 3rd party API.

dak2009 · June 18, 2019, 1:33pm

Any luck getting a context.accessToken?

zaid.huda · June 19, 2019, 2:58am

Negative. Can’t get it to work

dak2009 · June 19, 2019, 5:52am

Zaid,

I got it working! An Auth0 rule that acts on first time sign in user. It makes an API call to get a machine to machine token. It uses the token to call my API so it can register the new user in our database.

I found this example that was a big help in getting the Rule to work.

https://github.com/auth0/rules/blob/master/src/rules/parse.js

Ignore the context.access_token. You need to create your own. Make sure you use the client_id, client_secret and audience of your machine to machine definition.

Good luck.

David

system · July 4, 2019, 5:52am

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