All requests to the Muddy API require authentication. The muddy service uses oauth to delegate authentication access.

In order to access the Muddy APIs you will need to authorise your application with the service. To see which applications you have already authorised, login and visit registered applications.

To authorise an application the general process is :

1. Register your application with the Muddy service to obtain the consumer credentials (a once only operation)
2. Initiate the OAuth Token exchange process by requesting a request token from the Service
3. Visit the Muddy authorise url provided with the request token
4. Authorise the request token on the Muddy site
5. Exchange the request token for an access token

The access token can then be used to access the Muddy service.