Twitch Helix API: HTTP Error 401 - invalid access token

API
#1

I am using Helix API and creating an app in Python and Flask. But I encountered a problem. Everytime I make a request it just returns 401 - invalid access token.

User authorizes app from this link: “https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/authorize?client_id=rzmgq7ybviufdw3llgx1upt3w9ila5&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://localhost:5000&scope=openid”, it redirects to the “http://localhost:5000/?code=<access_token>&scope=openid” and validates token using a GET request. But everytime it just returns “invalid access token” error.

Source code:

from flask import Flask, request
from requests import get
app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/')
def validatetoken():
    ACCESS_TOKEN = request.args.get('code')
    r = get(url='https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/validate', headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}'})
    return r.json()

Thanks in advance!

#2

After getting the code you need to exchange the code for an access token

The code is NOT an access token.

Step 3

NodeJS example that may help

#3

Ok. Now it works, one more thing does the /oauth2/token require an redirect_uri? Without specyfing it, it wouldn’t let me in.

#4

As documented, yes

#5

OK. Thank you very much!

#6

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