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This page describes the high-level steps of how an external application communicates with the Usage Engine APIs using Client Credentials. You need an authorization token to be able to access the Usage Engine API. See the following example of an authorization token:
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By design, the Client Credentials flows do not have a refresh flow so a new access token needs to be requested every time the token expires. The tokens are valid for one (1) hour. As part of the authorization token, you will receive the lifetime (expires_in) of the token in seconds.
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access_token | The access token string that is issued by the authorization server. |
scope | Scopes defined for the token |
expires_in | Validity of the token in seconds |
token_type | The type of token this is, just the string “Bearer”. |
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