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Milesight Development Platform API utilizes OAuth 2.0 for authorization, granting your applications access to resources on Milesight Development Platform through secure tokens, eliminating the need for user credentials. This topic explains the authorization process and the token validity period.

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  Milesight Development Platform offers Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow you to integrate the system with third-party applications. Using the Milesight Development Platform API, third-party applications can access and manage resources within Milesight Development Platform, which helps you to implement workflow automation between systems and increase customization options in your own applications.
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  This topic provides a summary list of Milesight Development Platform API interfaces.
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  - Authentication
    - Authorization Rules
      Milesight Development Platform API utilizes OAuth 2.0 for authorization, granting your applications access to resources on Milesight Development Platform through secure tokens, eliminating the need for user credentials. This topic explains the authorization process and the token validity period.
    - Get an Access Token
      Access token is used to verify an authenticated API call. Applications must first request an access token, then include the it in every request to access the Milesight Development Platform API.
    - Refresh an Access Token
      To ensure secure and seamless communication between Milesight Development Platform and applications, you need to refresh the access token before it expires.
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Authorization Rules

Milesight Development Platform API utilizes OAuth 2.0 for authorization, granting your applications access to resources on Milesight Development Platform through secure tokens, eliminating the need for user credentials. This topic explains the authorization process and the token validity period.

Authorization process

The diagram below shows the process of an application accessing Milesight Development Platform via OAuth2.0.

An application uses the credentials (Client ID and Client Secret) obtained from Milesight Development Platform to request an access token, which is required for the application to access Milesight Development Platform API.
Milesight Development Platform validates the credentials, and sends an access token along with a refresh token.
The application calls the Milesight Development Platform API by passing the access token either in an Authorization HTTP header Bearer value or in an access_token query parameter.
Upon receiving the request, Milesight Development Platform authenticates the access token and returns a response, providing the information requested by the API call.
Access token expires 1 hour after it is issued, you need to refresh the access token before it expires.

Token validity period

Access token is valid for 1 hour
Refresh token is valid for 30 days