Get information about client within a rule

[svickers]

Is it possible to retrieve more information about the client that is making the auth request within a rule? Context has the clientID and clientName property but what I really want to do is get the third party flag to add to claims in my access token. I don’t think I can make a call to the management api because of user permissions, is there some other way?

[konrad.sopala]

Hey there!

Here is a full list of properties and info that you can get from Rules objects:

• Auth0 Rules
• Context Object Properties in Rules
• User Object Properties in Rules

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[konrad.sopala]

Hey there!

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