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# Set up the authorization code exchange

After you receive an authorization **code**, you must exchange it for an access token.

To request an access token, make a POST request to the token endpoint:

```
https://api.snyk.io/oauth2/token
```

with the following properties in a x-www-form-urlencoded formatted request body:

```
grant_type=authorization_code
&code=(code from the previous step)
&redirect_uri=(redirect URI from the previous step)
&client_id=(clientId from the app creation),
&client_secret=(clientSecret from the app creation)
&code_verifier=(code verifier generated in the previous step)
```

The response includes details necessary for your app to communicate with the Snyk APIs: `access_token` and `refresh_token`, as well as their expiry.

Both tokens must be stored in a secured data store. It is highly recommended to encrypt the values before storing them.

The `access_token` will be used for future API calls on behalf of the user and Organization. The access-token has a much shorter lifespan than the `refresh_token`.

The `refresh_token` can be used a single time to get a new `access_token` when it expires. In other words, the `refresh_token` will no longer be usable if its own expiry time passes or if it is used to refresh the `access_token`.


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