Get user profile-picture without login

API
1

Hey,
I’m wondering if it’s possible to fetch any users profile picture by his name without having them log in. I’ve tried and read much but I keep getting 401 responses. Do I really need an OAuth token to fetch simple, public data like a profile picture?

Thanks in advance

2

Use an App Access Token, AKA “client credentials”

Which is for server to server requests/public data

3

Thanks for helping me that quickly,

I got an oAuth and make a get request as specified in the docs to the following URL:
“https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=Kozie1337”

But my response does not include a data field as expected:

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Is my URL correct? I’ve tried using uncapitalized names but it still doesn’t work.
Since the status is 200 the authorization at least isn’t the problem anymore.

4

Your code didn’t process/spit out the response.

So would need to see your code to help with the issue

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5

I was using node-fetch before and data was undefined, now I switched to axios and it works out of a sudden. Thanks :slight_smile:

 axios
.get("https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=Kozie1337", {
  headers: {
    "Client-Id": clientid,
    Authorization: "Bearer " + token,
  },
})
.then((res) => {
  console.log(res.data);
});
6

I don’t know axious

But I’m gonna guess you need to

 axios
.get("https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=Kozie1337", {
  headers: {
    "Client-Id": clientid,
    Authorization: "Bearer " + token,
  },
    responseType: 'json'
})
.then((res) => {
  console.log(res.data);
});

The responseType will tell axois to expect and handle as JSON

And data should be the whole response object

Personally I use nodeJS Got myself

With node fetch you probablyt needed to do

fetch(url, {options})
    .then(resp => { return resp.json(); })
    .then(resp => {
        // do stuff with resp as it's the json blob that was returned
    });

This example might help,

But it’s front end JS

Or this backend example

Covers how Got works for accessing the body