I want to add PayPal REST APIs to our store software. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to automate the process of connecting a merchant account to our system. It looks like if you are using the REST API, you need to request the client id and secret. Then you sell this information for the OAuth token. However, this is not a normal OAuth stream, which has a step that requires user permission and does not require credentials to get started.
These two topics basically cover the same issue, but are rather outdated:
PayPal Rest api credentials via oauth
Is it possible to use "Login with PayPal" to make RIP api requests on behalf of the user?
Does anyone know if this is possible at the same time? Is it rather strange for me to develop a RESTful API with OAuth capabilities and then not use it, allowing people to automatically request access rights on behalf of the merchant? This makes it somewhat useless for the entire store software, right? Well, at least uncomfortable.
Or is it possible to use the old API to get an access token that can also be used with the REST API?
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