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I'd like to use the search API of salesforce. Is it possible to authenticate without a username/password, e.g. with some kind of permanent authentication token?

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You can use OAuth to get an access and refresh token. But you'll have to make sure you handle token expiration stuff.

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Thanks so far. I can request the authentication token without username/password?
We have an internal "Google" where we can search different platforms (Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, but also Slack and a few other tools). Now sales saw that and wants salesforce to be searchable by that tool, too. So the idea was to use this salesforce REST Api: developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/… . But since a server executes the request it needs to authenticate without username/password. Something like an Api key. Do you have an idea how to do that? I don't have salesforce access so I can't try it out.
You can either do the OAuth flow where a user grants an app access via a web UI or you can provide the integration user's credentials to the app. Those are the only options I'm aware of for your use case.

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