Adding an Authentication to your app
Reduce friction when adding an authentication to your own app.
Adding a missing authentication for 3rd party apps can be straightforward, but if it’s an authentication to your app it can result in sub-optimal UX.
“If an end user is logged into my app already, why do I need to do the oauth flow for my own app? Why can’t I skip it?”
Adding an authentication to your own app
Confirm your app's `authentication_fields`
When you created your app on Zapier’s Developer Platform, a required step was to define the fields required for authentication. Depending on your authentication scheme the authentication_fields below will differ.
Form & send your request
Leveraging the Create Authentication endpoint, supply your app’s required authentication_fields in the request.
Be sure to supply whatever authentication_fields are required by your apps’ authentication scheme.
Leverage the new authentication in subsequent workflow steps ✨
A successful response from this request will include an id, which can be used in subsequent steps.