This section is an overview of the Uber Developer Platform documentation for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) Authentication. This documentation provides step-by-step guides and API references to integrate Uber’s authentication and identity services into your app.

¶ Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Guides
• API Reference

¶ Getting Started

The Getting Started section provides an introduction to setting up your Uber Developer Account and registering an application to use OAuth and OIDC. The documentation includes:

1. Create Developer Account: Sign up for an Uber Developer Account
2. Create Application on Developer Dashboard: Register your app on the developer dashboard to generate client credentials
3. Configure the Application: Configure redirect URIs, scopes and other essential paramenters
4. Sign Legal Agreements: Accept the legal agreements required to use Uber APIs
5. Test the Application on Developer Dashboard: Verify your application’s functionality with test credentials before deployment.

¶ Guides

The Guides section offers detailed documentation on specific OAuth and OIDC features:

• User Access Token: Learn how to generate and use user-specific access tokens for authenticated API requests
• Client Access Token: Understand how to use client credentials for server-to-server interactions.
• Login with Uber: Integrate “Login with Uber” into your web or mobile application for seamless user authentication
• Scopes: Learn the Identity main scope definitions and what each of them are used for
• OIDC Web SDK: Utilize the Uber Web SDK for handling authentication flows in web applications
• Client Asymmetric Key Authentication: Authenticate using asymmetric key pairs for improved security (OpenAPI)

¶ API Reference

The API Reference provides technical details and sample requests for all authentication and identity-related APIs, including:

• Get User Authorization: Retrieve an authorization code for the user to initiate the OAuth flow (OpenAPI)
• Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR): Submit authorization requests directly to the server for enhanced security (OpenAPI)
• Get Access Token: Exchange authorization codes, use client credentials, use token exchange or refresh your access token to get access to Uber APIs (OpenAPI)
• Revoke Token(s): Revoke access or refresh tokens to terminate sessions (OpenAPI)
• Get User Information: Retrieve user profile data and account details after authentication (OpenAPI)
• Account Linking: Link user accounts across multiple Uber applications (OpenAPI)
• Unlink Account: Link user accounts across multiple Uber applications (OpenAPI)