Cognito Forms · OAuth Scopes

Cognito Forms OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 derived

Cognito Forms publishes 1 OAuth 2.0 scope via the authorizationCode flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Cognito Forms API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://cognitoforms.com/admin/oauthtoken.

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: 1 Flows: authorizationCode Method: derived

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://cognitoforms.com/api-connection
Token URL
https://cognitoforms.com/admin/oauthtoken
Flows
authorizationCode

Scopes (1)

ScopeDescriptionFlows
admin Full administrative access authorizationCode

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/cognito-forms-openapi.yml
schemes:
- name: oauth2Auth
  source: openapi/cognito-forms-openapi.yml
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://cognitoforms.com/api-connection
    tokenUrl: https://cognitoforms.com/admin/oauthtoken
scopes:
- scope: admin
  description: Full administrative access
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/cognito-forms-openapi.yml

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