Authenticate with Vincere's OAuth2 flow and read/search candidate records
domain: vincere.io · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Register your app in Vincere (Settings > App Store > API Authentication & Throttling) to get a client_id and register a redirect_uri. Vincere Identity runs at https://id.vincere.io in production.
Send the user to GET /oauth2/authorize on id.vincere.io with client_id, redirect_uri, response_type=code, and an optional state; Vincere redirects back with a short-lived authorization code (and your state echoed back).
Exchange the code at POST /oauth2/token (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) with grant_type=authorization_code, client_id, and code to receive access_token, refresh_token, and id_token (type Bearer, expires_in: 3600). The refresh_token is issued only once per code.
Call GET /oauth2/user on id.vincere.io with header id-token: <id_token> to get the authenticated user's tenant(s), each with a tenant-specific apiKey.
Call the REST API at https://<YOUR_TENANT>.vincere.io/api/v2/..., sending both id-token: <id_token> and x-api-key: <tenant apiKey> headers on every request — e.g. GET /api/v2/candidate/{id} for a single record, or GET /api/v2/candidate/search/?fl=id,name&q=... to search.
Refresh tokens before expires_in runs out by re-hitting /oauth2/token with grant_type=refresh_token; store the refresh_token server-side only.
Known gotchas
Missing/invalid x-api-key or id-token returns 403 (auth failure), whereas a malformed search query on /candidate/search/ returns 400 with {"status":"FAILED"} — check the status code before assuming it's an auth problem.
A refresh_token can only be redeemed once per original authorization code; reusing an already-consumed code returns invalid_grant.
You need two separate credentials per request (id-token from the OAuth flow and x-api-key from your tenant) — easy to miss on a first integration since only id-token is emphasized in the quick-start.
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