Streams followed api returning 401 unauthorised

[ragnaroksb]

Hey guys,
I am new to twitch.

So far, I have done these steps

• Created account with twitch

• Added 2 Factor auth

• Created an application and obtained the clientId

• I am getting the access token as per the document below

  • [https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication/getting-tokens-oauth/#oauth-client-credentials-flow]
  • Scope; user_read

• Then I am getting the live streams as follows

  • [https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/streams#get-live-streams]

• I am trying to get the Followed streams as per the api below

  • [https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/streams#get-followed-streams]

• I keep on getting the error below for the followed streams api

  {“error”: “Unauthorized”,“status”: 401,“message”: “authentication failed”}

• The API to get accesstoken is as follows
  curl --location --request POST ‘https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id={my_client_id}&client_secret={my_client_secret}&grant_type=client_credentials&scope=user_read’

  • this returns back an accessToken

• I then use the accessToken in the api below

  curl --location --request GET ‘https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/followed’
  –header ‘Accept: application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json’
  –header ‘Client-ID: {my_client_id}’
  –header ‘Authorization: Bearer {accessToken}’

I keep on getting

{
“error”: “Unauthorized”,
“status”: 401,
“message”: “authentication failed”
}

Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

[BarryCarlyon]

@ragnaroksb

The API to get accesstoken is as follows
curl --location --request POST ‘https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id={my_client_id}&client_secret={my_client_secret}&grant_type=client_credentials&scope=user_read’

The scope here is useless. As client_credentials doesn’t represent user, so there is no user to read

So that is your problem. You tried to get the streams that a user follows, but your access token doesn’t have a user

@ragnaroksb

–header ‘Authorization: Bearer {accessToken}’

Also for kraken it’s OAuth not Bearer

Reference

[ragnaroksb]

thanks BarryCarlyon for your quick reply.

I tried it again
curl --location --request POST ‘https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id={my_id}&client_secret={my_secret}&grant_type=client_credentials’

And followed api as below
curl --location --request GET ‘https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/followed’
–header ‘Accept: application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json’
–header ‘Client-ID: {myId}’
–header ‘Authorization: OAuth {myToken}’

I get the error
{
“error”: “Unauthorized”,
“status”: 401,
“message”: “invalid oauth token”
}

[BarryCarlyon]

@BarryCarlyon

So that is your problem. You tried to get the streams that a user follows, but your access token doesn’t have a user

You need to use a flow that grants a User Access Token as per the table on Authentication | Twitch Developers

Procedure	User Access Token	ID Token	App Access Token
OIDC Implicit Code Flow
OAuth Implicit Code Flow
OIDC Authorization Code Flow
OAuth Authorization Code Flow
OAuth Client Credentials Flow

usually:

OAuth Authorization Code Flow

Getting OAuth Access Tokens

[ragnaroksb]

Thanks BarryCarlyon,

I was finally able to get it working. Thanks for your help.

Cheers