[SOLVED] GET helix/users does not work with app access token

[thiagomorato]

Basically I’ve followed the steps from here to get the app access token:

Getting Tokens: OAuth

It successfully returns a token. Then I’m trying to get the userId from users I have the usernames, following the docs here:

Reference

The problem is, I’m getting this error:
401 - {"error":"Unauthorized","status":401,"message":"Invalid OAuth token"}

I don’t really understand what I’m doing wrong there, it should be possible to do that right? At least there are plenty of responses on google saying it is possible, and here too.

Here is the code that is not working:

const
  request = require( 'request-promise-native' ),
  { TWITCH_CLIENT_ID, TWITCH_SECRET_KEY } = process.env;

function getAccessToken() {
  return request({
    method: 'POST',
    json: true,
    url: 'https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token',
    qs: {
      client_id: TWITCH_CLIENT_ID,
      client_secret: TWITCH_SECRET_KEY,
      grant_type: 'client_credentials'
    },
  })
    .then( response => {
      console.log( response );

      return response.accessToken;
    });
}

function getUserInfo( username ) {
  return getAccessToken()
    .then( bearerToken => request({
      method: 'GET',
      json: true,
      url: 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users',
      qs: { login: username },
      headers: {
        'Client-Id': TWITCH_CLIENT_ID,
        Authorization: `Bearer ${ bearerToken }`
      }
    }))
    .then( value => {
      console.log( value );
    });
}

getUserInfo( 'duhws' );

Any help would be the most welcome, thanks in advance!

[Dist]

@thiagomorato

return response.accessToken;

That’s your issue. If you look at https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication/getting-tokens-oauth#oauth-client-credentials-flow or your console.log( response ) you’ll see that the response from Twitch has no key called accessToken, so response.accessToken is undefined and you’re trying to use Bearer undefined as your Authorization header.

It should be return response.access_token

[BarryCarlyon]

Also worth noting

Request and thus request-promise-native is deprecated and won’t be getting patches or updates!

[thiagomorato]

Oh my! Such a silly issue! Many thanks @Dist, on the response it is access_token instead of accessToken. Changed and it worked like a charm!

@BarryCarlyon Good point, I’m aware it is now on maintenance mode, still considering which lib to replace it, do you recommend any?

[BarryCarlyon]

@thiagomorato

@BarryCarlyon Good point, I’m aware it is now on maintenance mode, still considering which lib to replace it, do you recommend any?

Request complied a list on ticket 3143

Alternative libraries to request

Personally I moved to got