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Salesforce Service Cloud Authentication

Authentication

Salesforce Service Cloud secures its APIs with apiKey, http, and oauth2 across 3 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode flow(s).

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Methods: apiKey, http, oauth2 Schemes: 3 OAuth flows: authorizationCode API key in: header

Security Schemes

apiKey apiKey
· in: header (X-LIVEAGENT-API-VERSION)
oauth2 oauth2
· flows: authorizationCode
bearerAuth http
scheme: bearer

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/salesforce-live-agent-openapi.yml, openapi/salesforce-service-cloud-rest-openapi.yml
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - http
  - oauth2
  api_key_in:
  - header
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
schemes:
- name: apiKey
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: X-LIVEAGENT-API-VERSION
  description: Live Agent API version header
  sources:
  - openapi/salesforce-live-agent-openapi.yml
- name: oauth2
  type: oauth2
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize
    tokenUrl: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token
    scopes: 2
  sources:
  - openapi/salesforce-service-cloud-rest-openapi.yml
- name: bearerAuth
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  bearerFormat: OAuth2
  sources:
  - openapi/salesforce-service-cloud-rest-openapi.yml