Outlook authentication through rest api

Question

For testautomation purposes I would like to access my corporate email address through REST api calls. The problem is logging in. In all the documentation I found concerning this topic, you had to register an app. I'm not allowed to do so. And I don't think it is necessary, since I just want to poll my email to check if certain automatic emails are received.

Short questions is; Is there a way to receive the authentication token through a REST api when I only have my username/email address and a password?

Answer 1

Hi @Uphus K.C.P. (Kevin) ,

App registration in Azure AD is manditory to get the OAuth 2.0 access or authentication token to access the data in Microsoft Graph either using REST APIs or SDKs. There is a OAuth 2.0 Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC) grant authentication flow but it does require App ID (or Client ID).

Documentation Reference :

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth-ropc#authorization-request

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Hi @Uphus K.C.P. (Kevin)

You can log in to Graph Explorer with your username/password and it will automatically configure an access token after you log in, you can find it under the Access token option.

Graph Explorer is actually a multi-tenant application, you can find it in your tenant's enterprise application.

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