I am trying to understand how to retrieve an access token in a React SPA which I can use for authorization and include it in the header when calling my API. In the documentation it shows that I can call getTokenSilently() to retrieve an access token, but the token I receive is not a JWT. Can anyon…

Hi @nmck , If you are not setting the audience for a custom api (only requesting an access token for auth0’s authentication api) then it will be an opaque token, and that is likely what you are referring to. [image] Access Tokens Describes how access tokens are used in token-based authe…

SPA: How to get access token?

Get Help

dan.woda Closed October 1, 2019, 10:25pm 4

This topic was automatically closed 14 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.

Topic		Replies	Views
Authentication with SPA and API Get Help jwt , auth0	2	4067	September 17, 2020
SPA + API issue with JWT token Get Help apis , application	9	397	June 5, 2024
Get jwt access token using react-sdk (getAccessTokenSilently) Get Help jwt , auth0 , access-token , react-sdk	2	6784	March 10, 2021
API authentication not possible from SPA Get Help apis , application	4	1070	September 11, 2023
Getting access token with audience(my API identifier) defined in my SPA, but aud decoded is still clientID of my SPA JWT.io api	6	4492	April 23, 2020

SPA: How to get access token?

Related topics