--- title: Ping Identity and the Two Roads to a Programmatic Client description: A developer explores programmatic OAuth client registration with Ping Identity, comparing two approaches: PingOne's Management API (using a pre-provisioned... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ping-identity-and-the-two-roads-to-a-programmatic-client-s4mbagyj1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ping Identity and the Two Roads to a Programmatic Client | daily.dev og:description: A developer explores programmatic OAuth client registration with Ping Identity, comparing two approaches: PingOne's Management API (using a pre-provisioned... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ping-identity-and-the-two-roads-to-a-programmatic-client-s4mbagyj1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S4mBAGYJ1.png og:image:alt: Ping Identity and the Two Roads to a Programmatic Client og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ping Identity and the Two Roads to a Programmatic Client **[API Evangelist](https://daily.dev/sources/apievangelist)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer explores programmatic OAuth client registration with Ping Identity, comparing two approaches: PingOne's Management API (using a pre-provisioned worker app with client_credentials grant) and PingFederate's RFC 7591 Dynamic Client Registration endpoint. A working Node.js script (no npm dependencies) is provided that supports both paths via a --pf flag. The author argues that neither fully achieves the ideal of a fully self-service, human-free onboarding flow — both require a one-time manual setup step — but both are meaningfully better than most vendors. The post advocates for making worker-app provisioning itself an API call and for broader adoption of RFC 7591 as the standard for machine credential issuance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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