Getting a refresh token from the User Tokens page

[stationeryguru]

My app is just for a single user. On the User Tokens page I want to use the "Get a User Token Here" button to get an OAuth Token.

It returns the token on screen and I can click to copy the token to my clipboard and use that token in my requests. But I cannot find the refresh token which I will need to refresh this token later. Is that returned to the page somewhere?

[shipscript · Accepted solution]

@stationeryguru 

That screen returns only two-hour tokens. You will need to programmatically fetch the token to get the refresh token.

https://developer.ebay.com/my/auth?env=production&index=0&auth_type=oauth 

Developer - OAuth 2 hour token

Scroll further down the screen and set up the Sign-In settings.  You can use eBay defaults for the fields that hold them. Click the button to test the sign-in.

Or, you can have your server launch the Sign-in request.

https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-consent-request.html 

Accept the request, which will redirect to a "success" page. eBay will have appended your user's 5-minute authorization code as a query to the end of that "success" URL.

https://example.com/success.html?code=v%5E1.1%23i%5E1%23r%5E1...MA%3D%3D&expires_in=299

Grab that code value and use it to request an access token and refresh token.

https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-auth-code-grant-request.html

Save the refresh token because you will use that for up to 18-months to mint a new 2-hour access token whenever needed.

https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-refresh-token-request.html

[stationeryguru]

that's perfect many thanks