Trader Interactive Authentication

generated: '2026-08-30'
method: derived
source: >-
  https://github.com/traderinteractive/tol-api-php/blob/master/src/Authentication.php,
  https://github.com/traderinteractive/tol-api-php/blob/master/README.md,
  https://github.com/traderinteractive/tol-api-nodejs/blob/master/index.js
note: >-
  Trader Interactive publishes no authentication documentation. This profile is derived from the source
  of the two first-party TOL API clients the company maintains, which is the only public description of
  how the TraderOnline API authenticates. It is not a substitute for a published auth reference.
api: TraderOnline (TOL) API
base_url: https://api.traderonline.com
primary_scheme: oauth2
schemes:
  - id: oauth2_client_credentials
    type: oauth2
    flow: clientCredentials
    token_url: '{baseUrl}/token'
    parameters:
      - client_id
      - client_secret
      - grant_type=client_credentials
    default: true
    evidence: >-
      tol-api-php Authentication::createClientCredentials() posts
      {client_id, client_secret, grant_type: client_credentials} to "{baseUrl}/{tokenResource}" where
      tokenResource defaults to "token"; tol-api-nodejs createClient() wires
      getClientCredentialsToken(apiUrl + '/token', clientId, clientSecret).
  - id: oauth2_password
    type: oauth2
    flow: password
    token_url: '{baseUrl}/token'
    parameters:
      - client_id
      - client_secret
      - username
      - password
      - grant_type=password
    default: false
    evidence: >-
      tol-api-php Authentication::createResourceOwnerPasswordCredentials() and
      tol-api-nodejs getResourceOwnerPasswordCredentialsToken().
  - id: oauth2_refresh_token
    type: oauth2
    flow: refreshToken
    token_url: '{baseUrl}/{refreshResource}'
    default: false
    evidence: >-
      Both clients implement refresh-token exchange. The PHP client exposes refreshResource separately
      from tokenResource with the comment "Only needed since apigee doesnt use the token resource that is
      in the oauth2 spec", indicating the TOL API is (or was) fronted by Apigee with a non-standard
      refresh endpoint.
token_transport: Authorization bearer header on every request
token_refresh: >-
  Clients re-authenticate automatically on HTTP 401 with body error "invalid_grant"
  (tol-api-nodejs isExpiredToken()).
scopes:
  documented: false
  note: >-
    No scope or permission reference is published. tol-api-nodejs exposes
    handleGenericTokenWithScope(), so the TOL API supports scoped tokens, but the scope vocabulary is
    not public. No scopes/ artifact is written rather than inventing scope names.
credential_issuance: >-
  Not self-serve. Client id / client secret are issued to dealers and syndication partners through the
  TraderTraxx dealer relationship; there is no public signup for API credentials.
gaps:
  - No published authentication documentation on any Trader Interactive property.
  - No /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server or /.well-known/openid-configuration on any host.
  - Token endpoint path is documented only as "{baseUrl}/token" in client source; not independently verifiable anonymously.