I am using Okta’s sign-in widget once user signs in I get session token in my javascript. The i send it to my backend to verify and “completely” login user. How can i get user’s information if have session token Im trying to use GetCurrentUser api but it needs “api_token” and i am not sure where…

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@gevorgter In the signin widget doc you attached, you can refer the below use case to get userinfo and tokens. https://developer.okta.com/code/javascript/okta_sign-in_widget/#use-cases oktaSignIn.authClient.token.getUserInfo().then(function(user) { document.getElementById("messageBox").in…

Thanks, but once user signed in i want to send token to back end and get user information (the one that is returned by getUserInfo) via Okta’s APIs. I can not find one that would take session token.

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