# OAuth 2 Example App

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/oauth-2-example-app/3130226>\
**Category:** Web API's\
**Created:** [August 7, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/oauth-2-example-app/3130226 "2024-08-07T09:52:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![martin.carl.zimmerl8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@martin.carl.zimmerl8](https://community.thunkable.com/u/martin.carl.zimmerl8)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/oauth-2-example-app/3130226/1 "2024-08-07T09:52:04Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/oauth-2-example-app/3130226/2 "2024-08-07T15:17:42Z")

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Hi martin.carl.zimmerl8, welcome to Thunkable! 🎉

Be sure to check out [How to ask Great Questions v2.0](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-ask-great-questions-v2-0/2689983/1), the [Community Guidelines](https://community.thunkable.com/t/community-guidelines/78/8), and our [Getting Started Guide](https://docs.thunkable.com/getting-started/get-started) to make the best of your Thunkable Community experience!

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

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**Author:** ![martin.carl.zimmerl8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@martin.carl.zimmerl8](https://community.thunkable.com/u/martin.carl.zimmerl8)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:08am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/oauth-2-example-app/3130226/3 "2024-08-08T11:08:34Z")

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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](https://developer.dexcom.com/docs/dexcom/authentication/)**
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> Developer related documentation for the 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)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/minor-success-a-webviewer-and-web-api-and-oauth2-story/1201232):
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> 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…](https://github.com/thunkable/webviewer-extension/)

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