OAuth Like User-Agent Flow... But There's No User Endpoint... How to Configure? (Actually: Self-handled Authorization for OAuth APIs / Offline Access on Behalf of User)

[mishav]

I haven’t attempted it myself, but I’ve seen one guy do the “manual Oauth2 dance”, except in his case there is a login on the Bubble app and the other system.

I thought it was a rare thing, but it looks like three other people have also had a go at it, starting from this reply …

How to store access token(from multiple social networks) in bubble's DB so that I can later pull info(from respective network) from another app?

Unfortunately, I have done this often. Two reasons… Off-line access and multiple accounts per user. I’ve never cracked how to perform external calls using the vanilla oauth user agent flow, when the user is not present. Would love to hear how. And then there is the use case of several accounts for one user. As soon as you try this, a new bubble user is created. Again, would love to hear I’m wrong! Without these, I’m forced into doing the oauth dance step by step and storing in the database. …