I want to add PayPal REST API capabilities to our shop software. Unfortunately it seems there is no way to automate to process of connecting the merchants account to our system. It looks like if you use the REST API you need to ask for client ID and secret. Then you trade that information for an OAuth token. However this is not the normal OAuth flow, which has a step that asks for users permission and does not require credentials to begin with.
These two topics basically cover the same issue, but are rather stale:
paypal rest api credential via oauth
Is it possible to use `Log In with PayPal` to make REST api requests on behalf of the user?
Does anybody know if this is possible in the meantime? I find it rather strange to design a RESTful API with OAuth capabilities and then not using it by allowing people to automatically ask for access rights on behalf of the merchant? This makes is somewhat useless for all shop software doesn't it? Well at least inconvenient.
Or is there maybe a way one could use the old API to obtain an access token that can also be used with the REST API?
