OAuth 2 Example App

[martin.carl.zimmerl8]

I need to access a web API as part of a Thunkable app (which I have done several times).
However, OAuth is now new for me. I am looking for a simple thunkable app that uses OAuth2.
Thanks, Martin

[matt_conroy]

Hi martin.carl.zimmerl8, welcome to Thunkable!

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Unfortunately, our Web API component does not yet support OAuth 2.0.

[martin.carl.zimmerl8]

Thank you very much for the quick reply, but I am a little surprised.
We do not use our own web API but a publicly available one:

Dexcom API

More and more web APIs seem to be using this authentication method.
I found the following forum post, which apparently suggests a not easy but feasible solution in Thunkable.

Minor success! (A Webviewer and Web API and OAuth2 story)

I did it. It took too many hours of fighting, thanks to bad and conflicting documentation (mostly on the API side) and a good measure of clueless newbieness, but I did it. I’ve got an app working that runs through the entire OAuth2 process for my local grocery store’s API. It gets an authorization code using the Webviewer (with a redirect to a page with some javascript that sends back the authorization code as a Webviewer message, using this thing: GitHub - thunkable/webviewer-extension: Comm…

Unfortunately, the app link is not available. For us, a more complex solution would also be welcome…