Salesforce Marketing Cloud · Authentication Profile

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Authentication

Authentication

Salesforce Marketing Cloud secures its APIs with oauth2 across 1 declared security scheme, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the clientCredentials flow(s).

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Methods: oauth2 Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: clientCredentials API key in:

Security Schemes

OAuth2 oauth2
· flows: clientCredentials

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/salesforce-marketing-cloud-openapi.yml
summary:
  types:
  - oauth2
  oauth2_flows:
  - clientCredentials
schemes:
- name: OAuth2
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: clientCredentials
    tokenUrl: https://YOUR_SUBDOMAIN.auth.marketingcloudapis.com/v2/token
    scopes: 0
  description: Marketing Cloud uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow for authentication. Obtain
    a client ID and secret from an installed package in Marketing Cloud Setup, then exchange
    them for an access token at the authentication endpoint.
  sources:
  - openapi/salesforce-marketing-cloud-openapi.yml