How to get AUTHORIZATION_CODE with Jira OAuth?

[ibuchanan]

@SeikyoCho

When I tried to get the authorization code in terminal

I wonder if your problem isn’t the the callback URL at all but is how you are calling the authorize endpoint “in terminal”. Are you trying to curl it? I hope it’s clear that OAuth 2.0’s authorization code flow requires the browser.

There’s nothing wrong with a localhost callback URL. In this previous thread, I shared a CLI tool that does that:

OAuth 2.0 token

Now that you’ve linked to the docs, I had a quick look. Jira Spoke does apparently “speak OAuth”. I don’t think you should need to be messing around with OAuth 2 on the CLI. It certainly should not be needed by Jira Spoke. That said, maybe you’ll find some diagnostic value making sure that your app settings are valid, so I’ll share some tools here. Install oauth2c. Install jq. Install xh. Or, you can quickly switch xh for httpie, which is CLI compatible. If not, you might be able to change my…