I want to create a web app with ReactJS displaying some datas fetched from Twitch API, but I’m stuck at the OAuth part, I read the documentation here https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication/getting-tokens-oauth but I don’tget it, can someone explain me the logic of the authentication in a few word…

This should help you a bit more, especially the video linked there, it explains the general logic of oauth: [image] Authenticating with the Twitch API Frequently Asked Questions Introduction So, you want to work with the Twitch API and you probably noticed that everything…

Ok thank you for the link, but just to display Twitch datas about me on my app, I need to do the OAuth authentication ? I don’t understand why I need to get the OAuth popup just to display datas about my account ?

[image] Versifiction: I don’t understand why I need to get the OAuth popup just to display datas about my account ? All Helix API requests require an OAuth token. If you make requests server-side you can just generate an App token for any request that doesn’t require user scopes. If you mak…

So to display some twitch datas about my account, with only a front-end with React, I need : to do a get request to oauth then with the access token received, I can go get requests to twitch api endpoints that’s it ?

In a “Front-End-Only” situation, you must use the Implicit auth flow. Your user will have to authenticate with Twitch once every while (30 or 60 days, i forgot just now), then you can save that token in localStorage, for example. That will then allow you to make requests on the client-side to gathe…

Ok thank you I get it, it’s sad that to see Twitch datas about ME, the user has to login with Twitch, I’m not sure the user will understand that he has to login to see MY datas on MY website haha, Thanks man,

It’s a limitation of you saying it’s “Client-Side only”. You can, if you have a backend, cache the information on your server and provide it to all views. Other than that: Hardcode it and regularly run a server-side script to update it, if you expect the info to change.

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Marenthyu April 9, 2021, 5:26pm 2

This should help you a bit more, especially the video linked there, it explains the general logic of oauth:

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