Understanding Client Credentials Flow in OAuth 2.0

DLT Labs
3 min readOct 7, 2020
Client Credentials Flow in OAUTH 2.0

Client credentials flow in OAuth 2.0 is generally used for authenticating the service rather than the user. This grant_flow is used for machine-to-machine communication.

In this grant flow, the client registers itself with the OAuth 2.0 compliant authorization server. In return, the OAuth 2.0 compliant authorization server provides it with client_id and client_secret.

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