# Getting a token: 400 Bad Request

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/getting-a-token-400-bad-request/27250>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/getting-a-token-400-bad-request/27250 "2020-07-21T08:14:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/getting-a-token-400-bad-request/27250/2 "2020-07-21T11:13:19Z")

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Everything looks OK here.

I tried

```
<?php

$ch = curl_init('https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id=' . CLIENT_ID . '&client_secret=' . CLIENT_SECRET . '&grant_type=client_credentials');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

$r = curl_exec($ch);
$i = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if ($i['http_code'] == 200) {
    $data = json_decode($r);
    if (json_last_error() == JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
        echo 'Got token';
        print_r($data);
    } else {
        echo 'Failed to parse JSON';
    }
} else {
    echo 'Failed with ' . $i['http_code'] . ' ' . $r;
}

```

and

```
<?php

$ch = curl_init('https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(
    'client_id' => CLIENT_ID,
    'client_secret' => CLIENT_SECRET,
    'grant_type' => "client_credentials"
));

$r = curl_exec($ch);
$i = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if ($i['http_code'] == 200) {
    $data = json_decode($r);
    if (json_last_error() == JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
        echo 'Got token';
        print_r($data);
    } else {
        echo 'Failed to parse JSON';
    }
} else {
    echo 'Failed with ' . $i['http_code'] . ' ' . $r;
}

```

Change your code to also echo out the body not just the HTTP code, there should be an error message in the body that’ll provider further advice.

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