The partner will link the user to the login_url returned in Step 1.
- If Nextdoor created a new account in Step 1, the API will return a magic link which will automatically authenticate the web browser when clicked.
- If a Nextdoor account already exists for the specified email, then we cannot automatically authenticate the user. The API will instead return a link which will display the login form.
Upon successful login, the user will be redirected to the Nextdoor "authorize" web flow so that the user can grant the partner access to their Nextdoor account.
Each CMS/SMM tool user will need to authorize access for partners to their Nextdoor account manually via this web flow. Once authorized, partners will receive an access token for each customer with restricted scopes (entity_page:claim and article:write) to claim pages and to create/update/delete news articles.
The response will also contain an expires_in field, which dictates the number of seconds for which the token is valid.
Once the user accepts the authorization request, Nextdoor will redirect the user back to the configured redirect URL for the partner provider along with an access token on behalf of the customer.
More details: Sharing Get Authorization Code