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Did you ever find a solution for this? I have the same use case and finding ebay's design of this api to be very poor. The "user" for me is the app itself and will not have a user behind it clicking through some UI.

Hi @4wheelonline @discmaster85,

Getting a user access token is a 3 step process.

Please see all of the steps below:

- You need to construct an HTML request that will redirect the user to your application's Grant Application Access page for a getting user consent.
Ref: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-consent-request.html

- After successfully getting a user consent, you will get an authorization code returned by the consent request URL. You can use this authorization code for getting a User access token.
Ref: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-auth-code-grant-request.html

- An user access token is valid for two hours from the time it was generated. For continued access after the token expires, you must mint a new token using the associated refresh token.
Ref: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/oauth-refresh-token-request.html

You cannot generate a user access token without getting the user consent.

Best regards,
eBay Developer Support

Thank you for posting this i had the same question keep posting.