> You are reading the Docusign Developer Documentation. For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
>
> Documentation indexes by section:
> - APIs and SDKs: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/docs/llms.txt
> - Platform 101: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/platform/llms.txt
> - Extension Apps: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/extension-apps/llms.txt
> - Docusign CLI: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/docusign-cli/llms.txt
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> Authentication (OAuth, JWT Grant, M2M): https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/platform/auth
> Webhooks and Connect: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/platform/webhooks
>
> OpenAPI specifications: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/openapi.json
> MCP server: https://docusign.docs.buildwithfern.com/_mcp/server

# Authentication: Using Docusign Access Tokens | Developer Conference

Today we're going to review OAuth concepts, terminology and use cases as they relate to Docusign APIs. As a deep dive, to further demonstrate these concepts, we'll be assembling an OAuth access token generator using Node.js. If you have participated in our past hackathons, you may be aware of the necessity for generating access tokens, a prerequisite to making Docusign API calls.

[Learn More](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5fMc4W0-UWgM)