If your application needs to access Aliexpress sellers’ business data, your application needs to get the authorization from sellers, and you need to guide them to complete the flow of “using Aliexpress seller account to log in and authorize”.
Aliexpress Open Platform uses OAuth 2.0 protocol for user authentication and provides different authorization strategies for different application categories, which are pre-defined for the application category that your application belongs to. You can view the detailed authorization strategy for your application on the top section of the Auth Management page, including the following information:
Important
The following 2 kinds of authorization policy are applied to different APP categories:
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If you develop an application for specific sellers, you can limit the authorization scope by specifying the seller whitelist on Aliexpress Open Platform, then only these sellers can authorize your application to access their business data in Aliexpress marketplace. After your application is deployed online, you need to provide the authorization URL to the sellers. When the sellers log in your application for the first time, they will be prompted to complete the authorization process.
Take the following steps to specify the short code of sellers who can authorize your application to access their business data.
Note: If you are a third party developer and your application is open to all Aliexpress sellers, you only need to provide the URL of your application to the sellers when the application is deployed online. The sellers can follow the URL to complete the authorization process.
Follow the instructions in this documentation to complete seller authorization: Seller Authorization Introduction.