Authentication

Collect uses basic authentication procedures to authenticate and authorize users. Basic authentication entails the use of username(email) and a personal password. The session tokens and cookies are stored in local storage for future shallow authentication.

To use the Collect QGIS plugin, basic authentication is required before fetching forms and responses. This has some limitations in that a user has to be connected to internet before analyzing any Collect's data in the QGIS platform.

For developers, the API link https://collect-v2.vercel.app/api/login allows you to post login data(username, password). The response is a JSON object with user information or a text message that the user does not exist.