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I am trying to get oauth authorization for LinkedIn Learning xAPI webhooks.

According to their docs, they will send an authorization request and require an access token to be sent back.

Basically they are going to hit an endpoint with the following parameters:

  • grant_type : client_credentials
  • scope: xapi:write
  • client_id: {{ supplied client_id }}
  • client_secret: {{ supplied client_secret }}

I have set up Amazon Cognito to handle this, but one small problem is that when you set up a scope with Amazon Cognito, they force you to also add a scope identifier (a URL). This then makes the scope look something like this:

http://your-domain.com/xapi:write

I have tried in Postman to use just xapi:write as the LinkedIn Learning xAPI docs say, but that triggers an invalid_scope error and does not allow me to get an access token.

Is there any way around this? If not I may need to find another solution for getting an access token.

user4889134
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Looks like you have to use a Microsoft Authorization Server to access those resources. That is how it works - you use the data owner's system to get a token - and your own AWS Cognito system will not work.

Gary Archer
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