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Access Token Management

The Duende.AccessTokenManagement library provides automatic access token management features for .NET worker and ASP.NET Core web applications:

  • Automatic acquisition and lifetime management of client credentials based access tokens for machine-to-machine communication (using the Duende.AccessTokenManagement package)
  • Automatic access token lifetime management using a refresh token for API calls on behalf of the currently logged-in user (using the Duende.AccessTokenManagement.OpenIdConnect package)
  • Revocation of access tokens

Machine-To-Machine Token Management

Section titled “Machine-To-Machine Token Management”

To get started, install the NuGet Package:

Terminal window
dotnet add package Duende.AccessTokenManagement

See Service Workers and Background Tasks for more information on how to get started.

GitHub Repository View the source code for this library on GitHub.
NuGet Package View the package on NuGet.org.

User Token Management

Section titled “User Token Management”

To get started, install the NuGet Package:

Terminal window
dotnet add package Duende.AccessTokenManagement.OpenIdConnect

See Web Applications for more information on how to get started.

GitHub Repository View the source code for this library on GitHub.
NuGet Package View the package on NuGet.org.

License And Feedback

Section titled “License And Feedback”

Duende.AccessTokenManagement is released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Bug reports, feature requests and contributions are welcome via the Duende community discussions.