Get request header issue

API
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I am currently trying to send a get request to ‘https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams’, but I am having some issues. I have used the following header described in https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference#get-streams, but keep getting a response 400 ‘bad request’ sent back.

head = {
‘client-id’:client_id,
‘Authorization Bearer’:token
}

Looking at it again it looks like instead of ‘Authorization Bearer’:token I should have added 'Bearer ’ to the beginning of the token string and just used ‘Authorization’:. I tried this as well, but to no avail. This time, however, I got a status 401 ‘invalid OAuth token’ reply.

I have registered a developer application at https://dev.twitch.tv/console, where I took the client id from and generated a few clients secrets that I have tried using with it, but none of these have worked. I’m not sure if my formatting is incorrect or if my token is bad. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone has to offer.

2

should be

head = {
'client-id': client_id,
'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token
}
3

thanks for the speedy reply. I tried that as well, but I ran into a slightly different issue of it returning ‘invalid OAuth token’. Is the way in which I got the OAuth token correct?

4

Make sure it’s BearerSPACEtoken and you can check your tokens validity using the validate endpoint

Any valid token (user or app access) will work for the Streams endpoint

5

I have the space after ‘Bearer’. I just generated a new token using the https://dev.twitch.tv/console/apps and tried to get request the validate endpoint, but that also returned a status 401 indicating that the access token i just generated is invalid. Is there some reason that the secrets I just generated would be invalid?

6

You can’t generate a token via the console.

This sounds like you generated a new client secret and you are trying to use your client secret.

You need to use your cleintID and secret to generate a token.

This covers how to generate an App Access Token

7

I have now tried sending a post request to https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token. It told me that I am missing a client secret.

head = {
		'client-id':client_id,
		'client_secret':client_secret,
		'grant_type': 'client_credentials'
}


r = requests.post(API_ENDPOINT,headers = head)

Also there may be a typo in the docs. It says to use client_id in the header, but when i used that it said i was missing a client id. I also tried client-secret in the header, but that did not work.

8

You don’t send a header to the OAuth client credentials flow endpoint

It’s sent as query string or POST body data

Node JS Example:

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Thank you for your patience. For anyone that may need this:

head = {
‘client_id’:client_id,
‘client_secret’:client_secret,
‘grant_type’: ‘client_credentials’
}

r = requests.post(API_ENDPOINT,data = head)

Note: client_id is used here, not client-id as i previously thought.

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