---
title: "Oauth Start"
method: POST
path: "/api/admin/social/oauth/{network}/start"
tags: ["social"]
---

# Oauth Start

`POST /api/admin/social/oauth/{network}/start`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.getcheapgames.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.getcheapgames.com/api/admin/social/oauth/{network}/start`
- Auth: none declared

Begin connecting an account: returns the network's approval page.

POST, not GET: it writes the one-time state the callback is checked
against, and a GET that writes is one a prefetcher can fire.

## Path parameters

- `network` string, required

## Headers

- `authorization` string

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- StartOut
  - `url` string, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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