Simple and short OAuth cheat sheet

Sergei Isayeu
2 min readMay 11, 2021

This is more of a notepad for myself on OAuth. Feel free to use a cheat sheet or quick refresher.

What is OAuth? OAuth is an authorization framework that allows users or clients to grant access to server resources to another entity without sharing credentials.

Feel free to use or suggest improvements!

Terminology:

  • Access token — token to represent authorization to perform particular actions on the protected resources on behalf of the resource owners
  • Refresh token —…

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Sergei Isayeu

Husband, Principal Software Engineer, Snowboarder and curious person interested in building scalable software systems, leading teams and growing organizations