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refreshToken refreshExpiration help #2

Closed peterboivin closed 4 months ago

peterboivin commented 4 months ago

I am a little foggy on refreshToken and refreshExpiration. Are these generated values? Do I get them on the Schwab dev portal?

gporter0205 commented 4 months ago

refresh tokens are all part of the super confusing (and as a result probably super secure) oauth2 authentication process used by most major api's and web sites. Basically, the client id/app key, client secret and redirect-uri from the Schwab dev portal are used to log the user in and get the refresh token. The refresh token can then be used for 7 days to generate access token(s) that are what you actually use to call the Schwab API. It's taken me a long time to somewhat understand it and there's a lot of overview material out there if you google oauth2.

gporter0205 commented 4 months ago

check out the wiki for some step by step instructions on how to use this api client. I just put them together so let me know if they aren't clear or need more detail. https://github.com/gporter0205/schwab-api-client/wiki

peterboivin commented 4 months ago

Great. Thank you. I am glad I am not alone in finding it confusing.

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