# About the Authentication category

**URL:** <https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/about-the-authentication-category/562>\
**Category:** Authentication\
**Created:** [7 September 2016 10:02 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/about-the-authentication-category/562 "2016-09-07T10:02:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Olly](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/user_avatar/api-discuss.freeagent.com/olly/32/38_2.png) [@Olly](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/u/Olly)\
**Post date:** [7 September 2016 10:02 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/about-the-authentication-category/562/1 "2016-09-07T10:02:30Z")

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This category is for questions about authenticating against the API (OAuth etc). The best place to find out information about this is the FreeAgent API docs themselves:

[https://dev.freeagent.com/docs/oauth](https://dev.freeagent.com/docs/oauth)