Validate an AccessToken with new API

[jasonehirst]

Hi
I am currently validating a user’s access token via “https://api.twitch.tv/kraken”
I am using RestSharp and this works correctly.

var client = new RestClient(“https://api.twitch.tv/kraken”);
var twitchValidateRequest = new RestRequest($"?oauth_token={####TwitchAccessToken####}");
var twitchValidateResponse = client.Execute<List<Model.Twitch.TwitchValidateRootObject>>(twitchValidateRequest);
*** twitchValidateResponse.Data[0].token.valid will now show if the access token is valid or not

I want to do the same with the new API
What is the equivalent URL for the new API so I can do this?
Anything else different?

[BarryCarlyon]

Authentication

Is valid for v3/v5 (kraken) and Helix

[jasonehirst]

Thanks but if I replace https://api.twitch.tv/kraken with https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/validate in my above sample I get a 404 when trying to validate. Any idea?

[BarryCarlyon]

Please read the documentation.

As per the documentation you must perform the request like so:

curl -H "Authorization: OAuth <access token>" https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/validate

You must pass the authorisation via a header not as a query string argument. Most if not all of Helix/New API doesn’t accept Auth by query string argument

[jasonehirst]

Thank you, it’s working now.