# Automatically install Smart App to account?

**URL:** <https://community.smartthings.com/t/automatically-install-smart-app-to-account/115286>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** developers\
**Created:** [January 15, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/automatically-install-smart-app-to-account/115286 "2018-01-15T12:49:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/automatically-install-smart-app-to-account/115286/2 "2018-01-21T04:20:00Z")

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Using groovy SmartApps, you can:

- Install apps _you_ have published in _your_ own account using the OAuth flow
- Install apps _others_ have had officially published (by SmartThings) in _your_ account using the OAuth flow

As of 2016, you can not install an app that others have published to their own accounts via OAuth.

From the [Web Service SmartApp docs](http://docs.smartthings.com/en/latest/smartapp-web-services-developers-guide/tutorial-part2.html):

> Beginning February 1, 2016, only SmartApps approved and published by SmartThings can be installed via the OAuth flow discussed below.
> 
> For testing purposes, you will be able to install into your own account only.
> 
> For more information, see this [community post](https://community.smartthings.com/t/smartthings-oauth-changes/35019).

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