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Freight Waves Authentication

Authentication

Freight Waves secures its APIs with http and oauth2 across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode flow(s).

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Methods: http, oauth2 Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: authorizationCode API key in:

Security Schemes

bearerAuth http
scheme: bearer
mcpOAuth oauth2
· flows: authorizationCode

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: openapi/freight-waves-sonar-openapi.yml
docs: https://api.sonar.surf/Help/
summary:
  types:
  - http
  - oauth2
  api_key_in: []
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
notes: >-
  Two distinct auth surfaces. (1) The SONAR REST API uses an opaque/JWT bearer
  token obtained from POST /Credential/authenticate (username + password), valid
  one year, sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. (2) The hosted MCP server at
  api.freightwaves.com/mcp uses OAuth 2.1 (authorization_code + PKCE S256, dynamic
  client registration, public client) with the mcp:read scope.
schemes:
- name: bearerAuth
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  bearerFormat: JWT
  description: >-
    SONAR REST API bearer token from POST /Credential/authenticate, sent as
    `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Tokens are valid for one year; re-authenticating
    issues a new token without invalidating prior tokens.
  sources:
  - openapi/freight-waves-sonar-openapi.yml
  - https://api.sonar.surf/Help/
- name: mcpOAuth
  type: oauth2
  description: OAuth 2.1 protection for the FreightWaves MCP server (scope mcp:read).
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://api.freightwaves.com/oauth/authorize
    tokenUrl: https://api.freightwaves.com/oauth/token
    registrationUrl: https://api.freightwaves.com/oauth/register
    pkce: S256
    scopes:
      mcp:read: Read-only access to SONAR data via the MCP server.
  sources:
  - well-known/freight-waves-oauth-authorization-server.json
  - well-known/freight-waves-oauth-protected-resource.json