generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/permissions_scopes
source: >-
  https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/permissions_scopes and
  https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/access_tokens
provider: Instacart
providerId: instacart
description: >-
  OAuth 2.0 permissions for the Instacart Connect APIs. Scope is selected at token-request time and the
  resulting access token is limited to that API. Instacart's own guidance is to request the narrowest
  scope for the task. Note the shape is unusual: `scope` and `grant_type` are coupled - the same
  capability (Order Feedback) takes a different grant type depending on whether it is implemented in
  the backend or the frontend - and one API (Transaction) takes no scope at all. Multiple scopes may
  be requested in one token request, comma-separated, only when they share a grant_type. Omitting
  scope on a client_credentials request yields a token covering every permitted API for that grant
  type, which is the opposite of least privilege and worth calling out.
  These scopes are documented, not declared: no oauth2 securityScheme with a scopes map appears in the
  harvested OpenAPI, so derive-oauth-scopes.py found zero. Everything below was read from the docs.
derived_from_spec: false
token_endpoint: POST https://connect.instacart.com/v2/oauth/token
token_lifetime: 24 hours
revocation_endpoint: POST /v2/oauth/revoke_access_token
scopes:
  - name: 'connect:fulfillment'
    grant_type: client_credentials
    api: Fulfillment API
    description: >-
      Access stores, service options, reservations, order creation and order management.
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/fulfillment/overview
  - name: 'Connect::Orders::RatingService'
    grant_type: client_credentials
    api: Order Feedback API (backend implementation)
    description: Create or update order feedback from a backend implementation.
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/fulfillment/overview
  - name: 'Connect::Orders::RatingService'
    grant_type: 'fulfillment_user_assertion | urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:retailer-json-bearer'
    api: Order Feedback API (frontend implementation)
    description: >-
      Create or update order feedback from a frontend implementation, on behalf of an end user.
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/fulfillment/overview
  - name: 'connect:post_checkout'
    grant_type: fulfillment_user_assertion
    api: Post-checkout API
    description: Access order detail and order status for a customer's order.
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/post_checkout/overview
  - name: account_linking
    grant_type: authorization_code
    api: Account linking
    description: Link a customer's Connect user account to their Instacart account.
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/fulfillment/users/generate_linking_token
  - name: 'connect:data_ingestion'
    grant_type: client_credentials
    api: Catalog API
    description: >-
      Submit products and items to the retailer catalog. Not listed in the public permissions table;
      captured from the bearerAuth description in Instacart's own Catalog API definition
      (openapi/_original/instacart-catalog-api-openapi.yml).
    source: openapi
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/catalog/catalog_api/overview/
no_scope_required:
  - api: Transaction API
    grant_type: client_credentials
    description: Send point of sale transaction information to Instacart. Scope value is None.
    docs: https://docs.instacart.com/connect/api/transaction/overview
notes:
  - >-
    "Partner retailers may have access to private APIs" with scope values published only in partner
    documentation, so this list is the public subset, not the complete set.
  - >-
    The Developer Platform API (/idp/v1) does not use OAuth at all. It uses API keys with three
    permission levels - read-only, read-write and admin - configured in the Developer Dashboard.
    Those are permission tiers, not OAuth scopes, and are recorded in
    authentication/instacart-authentication.yml and conventions/instacart-conventions.yml.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com