Automators 49: Reusable Shortcuts with Scotty Jackson

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@cjbnash

do you know if you can authenticate with OAuth from shortcuts?

There are some workarounds described on the forum.

OAuth 2.0 in Shortcuts

OAuth 2.0 The following will give a rough overview of how to setup OAuth 2.0 with Shortcuts. There are basically three components to be setup which are detailed further under the relevant headings: Foursquare - Registering your “app” with Foursquare to obtain a Client ID and a Client Secret. Server - Configuring your own server to redirect from a web URL to the Shortcuts app. Shortcut - Setup your Shortcut to perform the authentication. Foursquare You will first need to create an Applicati…

Building a General Purpose OAuth Redirect Proxy For Shortcuts and Scriptable

Foreword This is a bit of a long read but I sure hope it would be worth it. Background I’m an avid user of Shortcuts and Scriptable and it’s getting more common to encounter APIs that use OAuth 2.0 to access their endpoints. One thing common with OAuth is a requirement of a redirect_uri also known as a callback url - a url that will catch the initial authorization code which in turn would be used to acquire the access_token. Inspired by @mark’s OAuth 2.0 in Shortcuts, I came up with an idea …