Credly · OAuth Scopes

Credly OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 derived

Credly publishes 3 OAuth 2.0 scopes via the clientCredentials flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Credly API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://api.credly.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.

Digital CredentialsOpen BadgesBadgingCertificationsVerifiable CredentialsPearson

Scopes: 3 Flows: clientCredentials Method: derived

OAuth endpoints

Token URL
https://api.credly.com/oauth/token

Flows
clientCredentials

Scopes (3)

Scope	Description	Flows
issue	Issue and manage badges.	clientCredentials
read	Read access to organization resources.	clientCredentials
workforce	Access to employee/workforce data.	clientCredentials

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/credly-openapi.yml
schemes:
- name: oauth2
  source: openapi/credly-openapi.yml
  flows:
  - flow: clientCredentials
    tokenUrl: https://api.credly.com/oauth/token
  description: OAuth 2.0 client_credentials grant. Tokens are short-lived (2 hours) and sent
    as a Bearer token.
scopes:
- scope: issue
  description: Issue and manage badges.
  flows:
  - clientCredentials
  sources:
  - openapi/credly-openapi.yml
- scope: read
  description: Read access to organization resources.
  flows:
  - clientCredentials
  sources:
  - openapi/credly-openapi.yml
- scope: workforce
  description: Access to employee/workforce data.
  flows:
  - clientCredentials
  sources:
  - openapi/credly-openapi.yml