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Genius Authentication

Authentication

Genius 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

GeniusOAuth2 oauth2
· flows: authorizationCode
ClientAccessToken http
scheme: bearer

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/genius-openapi.yml
summary:
  types:
  - http
  - oauth2
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
schemes:
- name: GeniusOAuth2
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://api.genius.com/oauth/authorize
    tokenUrl: https://api.genius.com/oauth/token
    scopes: 4
  description: |-
    Genius uses OAuth 2.0 with the authorization-code flow. Apps are
    registered at https://genius.com/api-clients.
  sources:
  - openapi/genius-openapi.yml
- name: ClientAccessToken
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  bearerFormat: client_access_token
  description: |-
    Client-only access token issued at app registration. Sufficient for
    read-only endpoints (search, songs, artists, albums, annotations,
    referents, web_pages/lookup).
  sources:
  - openapi/genius-openapi.yml