Decode access_token?

stephanie.chamblee · April 30, 2021, 1:50pm

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When an audience is provided in the authorize request, then the Access Token will be a JWT that you can decode using a library such as the ones listed on https://jwt.io/.

If an audience is not provided, then an opaque token will be returned to your app, which cannot be decoded.

For more information on this, you can take a look at this FAQ:

https://community.auth0.com/t/why-is-my-access-token-not-a-jwt-opaque-token/31028/4

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Decode access_token?

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