# Android app-to-web auth?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-app-to-web-auth/12626>\
**Category:** Tech\
**Created:** [November 21, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-app-to-web-auth/12626 "2025-11-21T20:46:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-app-to-web-auth/12626/1 "2025-11-21T20:46:39Z")

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On Android, when I navigate from a goal in the app to the same goal in my mobile browser, I am always authenticated. Like the authentication carries through.

How does this work?

I’d like to implement the same thing with [bm.taskratchet.com](http://bm.taskratchet.com), so when someone clicks the title of a goal in that dashboard, they land on the Beeminder site already-authenticated.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![krugerk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/krugerk/32/5161_2.png) [@krugerk](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/krugerk)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-app-to-web-auth/12626/2 "2025-11-22T05:38:45Z")

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I do not know how the android app does it but the documented method is what the iOS app uses.

```auto
curl https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/alice.json?auth_token=abc123&redirect_to_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beeminder.com%2Fpledges

```

> **[Beeminder API Reference](https://api.beeminder.com/#getuser)**

“Authenticate and redirect the user”