CARTO · OAuth Scopes

CARTO OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 searched

CARTO publishes 4 OAuth 2.0 scopes via the authorizationCode and clientCredentials flows. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the CARTO API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://auth.carto.com/oauth/token.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

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Scopes: 4 Flows: authorizationCode, clientCredentials Method: searched

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://auth.carto.com/authorize
Token URL
https://auth.carto.com/oauth/token
Flows
authorizationCodeclientCredentials

Scopes (4)

ScopeDescriptionFlows
openid OIDC authentication; issue an ID token.
profile Access the user's basic profile claims.
email Access the user's email and email_verified claims.
offline_access Issue a refresh token for long-lived access.

Source

OAuth Scopes

cartodb-scopes.yml Raw ↑
generated: '2026-07-18'
method: searched
source: https://docs.carto.com/carto-for-developers/key-concepts/authentication-methods/oauth-access-tokens
docs: https://docs.carto.com/carto-for-developers/key-concepts/authentication-methods
note: >-
  CARTO authenticates the Cloud-Native API with OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens issued by
  the Auth0-backed identity provider (auth.carto.com) for the
  `carto-cloud-native-api` audience. API-resource permissions are carried on the
  token as the user's/M2M-client's granted access rather than a fixed public scope
  registry; the OIDC identity scopes below come verbatim from the auth server's
  discovery document.
schemes:
- name: OAuth2
  source: well-known/cartodb-oauth-authorization-server.json
  audience: carto-cloud-native-api
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://auth.carto.com/authorize
    tokenUrl: https://auth.carto.com/oauth/token
  - flow: clientCredentials
    tokenUrl: https://auth.carto.com/oauth/token
scopes:
- scope: openid
  description: OIDC authentication; issue an ID token.
  sources: [well-known/cartodb-openid-configuration.json]
- scope: profile
  description: Access the user's basic profile claims.
  sources: [well-known/cartodb-openid-configuration.json]
- scope: email
  description: Access the user's email and email_verified claims.
  sources: [well-known/cartodb-openid-configuration.json]
- scope: offline_access
  description: Issue a refresh token for long-lived access.
  sources: [well-known/cartodb-openid-configuration.json]

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