I am trying to send Direct Message to a user who I follow and who follows me.
When I first tried to make a POSTMAN request as per the document here I was getting a HTTP 415 response, media type not supported. I looked up the Error code in their document and understood that this was happening because the callback_url needed to be whitelisted.
So I followed this guide to whitelist the callback_url and generate the access_request token , i.e oauth_token and oauth_secret here
So, was :
1. Get successfully oauth/request_token and got the Response: &oauth_callback_confirmed=true for the callback_url configured my app details. As far as I could tell, that's all I thought, I needed to do to whitelist the callback_url
2. Got oauth_verifier and final oauth_token and oauth_token_secret
But, after generating the outh_token and oauth_token_secret and using it to make the DM API call, Now I am getting
{
"errors": [
{
"code": 32,
"message": "Could not authenticate you."
}
] }
When I try to make a GET auth/authenticate call as documented here, I get a HTTP 403 with a message
Whoa there!
The request token for this page is invalid. It may have already been
used, or expired because it is too old. Please go back to the site or
application that sent you here and try again; it was probably just a
mistake.
I can see in the Documentation that https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages/events/new.json
Requires authentication? Yes (user context only)
I think I am missing something. Can anyone please help me point in the right direction as to what I need to be able to send DM to users successfully ?
I was also getting this error just now, I regenerated my API Key & Secret for the account and the Access Token & Secret for the application and then my POST request worked correctly.
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I have been at this for sometime now and wanted to see if anyone had and idea of what I could be doing wrong. What I am trying to do is add a song to a playlist using the provided Spotify Web APIs. According to the documentation on this https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/add-tracks-to-playlist/ I need to establish the scope of the user.
"adding tracks to the current user’s private playlist (including collaborative playlists) requires the playlist-modify-private scope" I have created the playlist as collaborative and I am using the login credentials of my personal account to reach this playlist I created. all this is under the same login.
What I am finding is that my scope is not getting added to my token on my call for my token causes a 403 error when I try to add the song.
Here is what that call looks like
https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/?client_id=mynumber&response_type=code&scope=playlist-modify-private&redirect_uri=http:%2F%2Flocalhost:55141/Home/GetToken/
here are the docs on using authorization to get the correct token.
https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/?client_id=894400c20b884591a05a8f2432cca4f0&response_type=code&scope=playlist-modify-private&redirect_uri=http:%2F%2Flocalhost:55141/Home/GetToken/
further more if I go into the dev support here
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/add-tracks-to-playlist/
and click the green try button and then request a new token it works.
Bottom line some how my request is not taking my scope request. Any Ideas?
Thanks
To get the token with a specific scope you need to go to the authorize endpoint and get the code. The code is what you want to get to be able http post to the endpoint https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token and get a token with your desired scopes. You can simply get the code by pasting a url like this in your browser...
https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id=<client_id>&response_type=code&scope=streaming%20user-read-email%20user-read-private&redirect_uri=<redirect_uri>
Only add %20 in between scopes if you have multiple ones
You will then be sent to spotify's website and they'll verify you want to do this. Once you verify it your browser will redirect you to what you set the redirect_uri to be in the url above. At the end of the url that you are sent to, you should be able to see the parameter name code with the code value assigned to it. You then get that code and put it in your http post body params to the https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token endpoint. Make sure you accurately follow the query params requirements in your post method.
An example of the post in python using the requests library:
authorization = requests.post(
"https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token",
auth=(client_id, client_secret),
data={
"grant_type": "authorization_code",
"code": <code>,
"redirect_uri": <redirect_uri>
},
)
authorization_JSON = authorization.json()
return authorization_JSON["access_token"]
In the end you should get a json that shows the scopes you set a long with a refresh the token later on to make more requests.
I know this answer is quite late but I was experiencing the same issue as well which is how I came across this question. I hope this helps anyone that sees this at a later date.
Source: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization-guide/#client-credentials-flow
The DocuSign documentation goes through an easy to follow authorization flow for code grant. I'm able to get the "code" from the initial GET request to /oath/auth but getting the tokens gives me an error of "invalid_grant" when I try in postman. I've followed the steps and have a request that looks like this using account-d.docusign.com for host:
POST /oauth/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization: Basic MjMwNTQ2YTctOWM1NS00MGFkLThmYmYtYWYyMDVkNTQ5NGFkOjMwODc1NTVlLTBhMWMtNGFhOC1iMzI2LTY4MmM3YmYyNzZlOQ==
grant_type=authorization_code&code=ey2dj3nd.AAAA39djasd3.dkn4449d21d
Two other members of my team have also tried with their developer accounts and all are getting invalid_grant errors. Is this no longer supported or are there common errors associated with this error that we might be able to investigate?
Re-check all of your values.
I was also getting the same invalid_grant response and could not figure out why at first. It turns out that I had a typo in the Content-Type header. I was using application/x-www-form-urlencode instead of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
You may not be, but if you are submitting the exact Authorization Header as you've posted it here in your question (MjMwNTQ2YTctOWM1NS00MGFkLThmYmYtYWYyMDVkNTQ5NGFkOjMwODc1NTVlLTBhMWMtNGFhOC1iMzI2LTY4MmM3YmYyNzZlOQ==) it will fail with that message.
That is the base64 value for the sample integration key and sample secret key provided in their documentation. If you decode that string with an online base64decoder it will result in 230546a7-9c55-40ad-8fbf-af205d5494ad:3087555e-0a1c-4aa8-b326-682c7bf276e9. This is the same sample integration key and secret in the documentation.
Check the Authorization header you are submitting by encoding your integration key and secret (integrationKey:secret) using this online base64encoder. This will make sure the issue isn't with your base64 encoding of your integration key and secret. Once you have that value make sure your Authorization uses the word Basic before the value you got from this website. (Basic base64stringFromOnlineEncoder)
Check that the code your are submitting in the body of the post is not the sample code from their documentation. ey2dj3nd.AAAA39djasd3.dkn4449d21d is the sample code from their documentation. You may just be using that in your question as a placeholder but if you are submitting any of those values it will return invalid_grant. Make sure that the body of your post does not have any leading or trailing spaces.
Have the correct Content-Type set application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Have the correct Authorization header set Basic base64EncodedIntegrationKey:Secret
Have the correct body using the valid code received from the GET request to /oauth/auth with no leading or trailing spaces, making sure you're not using the values from your question.
If you are still having trouble and you are not doing a user application but are doing a service integration you can use Legacy Authentication to get your oAuth2 token.
Alternative Method using Legacy Authentication for Service Integrations
This method does not use a grant code. You pass in the integration key, username and password into the X-DocuSign-Authentication header in JSON format.
Demo Server: demo.docusign.net
Production Server: www.docusign.net API
Version: v2
POST https://{server}/restapi/{apiVersion}/oauth2/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-DocuSign-Authentication: {"IntegratorKey":"your_integrator_key","Password":"docusign_account_password","Username":"docusign_account_username"}
grant_type=password&client_id=your_integrator_key&username=docusign_account_username&password=docusign_account_password&scope=api
If you are building a user application that requires the user enter their docusign credentials to generate the token, this alternative will not work for you.
For anyone who is facing this error, I'd like to point out this note in the documentation:
Note: The obtained authorization code is only viable for 2 minutes. If more then two minutes pass between obtaining the authorization code and attempting to exchange it for an access token, the operation will fail.
I was struggling with the same error until I spotted the note and sped up my typing to meet the 2 minutes.
Hope it helps someone else.
In my case the problem was related to having set a wrong value for Content-Type header, namely "application/x-www-form-URIencoded" instead of the correct "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". Note though that in my case the problem was not a "typo" but an excessive trust in DocuSign documentation.
Indeed the wrong Content-Type is, at the time of writing, suggested directly into the documentation page where they describe the Authorization Code Grant workflow, see the image below for the relevant part.
Hopefully they will fix the documentation soon but for the time being be careful not to blindly copy & paste the code from their examples without thinking, as I initially did.
anyone have an idea what is wrong here I am getting a BadRequest with the following
{"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"unauthorized_client"}
var client = new RestClient(ESIGNURL);
var request = new RestRequest("/oauth/token");
request.Method = Method.POST;
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(integrationkey+ ":" + secret)));
string body = "grant_type=authorization_code&code=" + code;
request.Parameters.Clear();
request.AddParameter("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", body, ParameterType.RequestBody);
var response = client.Execute(request);
I was getting this error as well. What I realized is I was appending the state at the end of the code before passing it to the oauth token endpoint.
This snippet is from Docusign explaining what are some other reasons for getting that error.
Invalid-error explanation
I just spent a day doing this (in NodeJS). I'll add a couple of things to the answers from before. First, I had to put:
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
in the header. Otherwise it gave me the message:
{
"error": "invalid_grant",
"error_description": "unsupported_grant_type"
}
Second, the base64 encoding:
I used this in NodeJS and it worked
const integration_key = process.env.INTEGRATION_KEY;
const secret_key = process.env.SECRET_KEY;
const authinfo =
integration_key.toString("utf8") + ":" + secret_key.toString("utf8");
const buff2 = Buffer(authinfo, "utf8").toString("base64");
If you use "base64url" it dosen't work because it strips the == off of the end of the string. The = symbol is used as padding and apparently it's needed. You see a similar difference on this site https://www.base64encode.org/ when you toggle the url safe encoding option. If you don't have the padding on the end of your base64 encoded string (or if it's generally incorrect) you get this message:
{
"error": "invalid_grant",
"error_description": "unauthorized_client"
}
Finally, if you're using Postman (I'm using DocuSign's Postman Collection) remember to reset and save the codeFromUrl variable after you update it. Otherwise it doesn't update and you get the message:
{
"error": "invalid_grant",
"error_description": "expired_client_token"
}
This means the old URL code has expired and your new one didn't save.
I'm getting the following error when hitting the get recent media endpoint of instagram:
"error_type": "APINotFoundError",
"code": 400,
"error_message": "this user does not exist"
Points to note:
1) App is in live mode, the basic permission has been approved. I didnt apply for any other permission.
2) Works fine for sandbox user
This is the exact URL i'm hitting:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/2147483647/media/recent/?access_token=
Am I missing something or do I have to explicitly do something to put the app into live mode ?
It probably means that the user id 2147483647 does not correspond to a valid Instagram user. I just tried on my end and I get the same response.
P.S: You should NEVER post your access_token in public posts such as these. You should mask it from the post ASAP.
I want to implement the Google Drive API to my web application using NodeJS and I'm struggling when I try to get a token via OAuth.
I've copied the code from this guide and run the script using Node and it returns an error in this line:
var redirectUrl = credentials.installed.redirect_uris[0];
Googling around I found that I can set that variable as http://localhost:8080 and set the same value in the Authorized redirect URIs configuration in the Google Developers Console and that error goes away, fine, it works. Now it asks for a code that I should get by using an URL.
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fdrive.metadata.readonly&response_type=code&client_id=CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8080
Then I've added the client id and enter to that URL with Chrome and then returns a connection refused error. No clue what to do in here, I searched about my problem and I can't found an answer. By looking at the direction bar in Chrome I see that there's a parameter called code and after it, there's random numbers and letters. Like this:
http://localhost:8080/?code=#/r6ntY87F8DAfhsdfadf78F7D765lJu_Vk-5qhc#
If I add any of these values it returns this error...
Error while trying to retrieve access token { [Error: invalid_request] code: 400 }
Any ideas on what should I do? Thanks.
Did you follow all the directions on the page you indicated, including all of those in Step 1 where you create the credentials in the console and download the JSON for it? There are a few things to note about creating those credentials and the JSON that you get from it:
The steps they give are a little different from what I went through. They're essentially correct, but the "Go to credentials" didn't put me on the page that has the "OAuth Consent Screen" and "Credentials" tabs on the top. I had to click on the "Credentials" left navigation for the project first.
Similarly, on the "Credentials" page, my button was labeled "Create Credentials", not "Add Credentials". But it was a blue button on the top of the page either way.
It is very important that you select "OAuth Client ID" and then Application Type of "Other". This will let you create an OAuth token that runs through an application and not through a server.
Take a look at the client_secret.json file it tells you to download. In there, you should see an entry that looks something like "redirect_uris":["urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob","http://localhost"] which is the JSON entry that the line you reported having problems with was looking for.
That "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob" is a magic string that says that you're not going to redirect anywhere as part of the auth stage in your browser, but instead you're going to get back a code on the page that you will enter into the application.
I suspect that the "connection refused" error you're talking about is that you used "http://localhost:8080/" for that value, so it was trying to redirect your browser to an application running on localhost... and I suspect you didn't have anything running there.
The application will prompt you to enter the code, will convert the code into the tokens it needs, and then save the tokens for future use. See the getNewToken() function in the sample code for where and how it does all this.
You need to use this code to exchange for a token. I'm not sure with nodejs how to go about this but in PHP I would post the details to the token exchange url. In javascript you post array would look similar to this ....
var query = {'code': 'the code sent',
'client_id': 'your client id',
'client_secret': 'your client secret',
'redirect_uri': 'your redirect',
'grant_type': 'code' };
Hope this helps
Change redirect uri from http://localhost:8080 to https://localhost:8080.
For this add SSL certificates to your server.
I recently opened a new Instagram account and registered a new client. The information I received back from Instagram included the client_id and the client_secret.
I will only run the script on my machine, and be the sole user of the project, so I don't need any user to "log in". But for some reason, whenever I try to make any calls to the Instagram-Node API, it returns the following error:
{ [Error: OAuthAccessTokenException: The access_token provided is invalid.]
code: 400,
error_type: 'OAuthAccessTokenException',
error_message: 'The access_token provided is invalid.',
retry: [Function] }
That's weird to me, because I have an identical setup with an older Instagram account and different credentials, that seem to be working just fine. Then again, that was before November, when Instagram changed some of their API policies.
I use the Instagram-Node like so:
ig.use({
client_id: "dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2",
client_secret: "4b0xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa53c03100e4"
});
and make my first call like this:
ig.user_media_recent(user.toString(), options,...
I tried handling the authentication by rerouting my request through the redirect_uri as shown in the Instagram-Node documentation, but even then, all of my requests are unsigned, so it's not clear to me what I would do with the access_token any way.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Okay, the problem is a misunderstanding of the limits of the Sandbox Mode, they essentially make it impossible to look up media from users who are not in your sandbox.
The documentation here says:
The first point is important and it means that the API behaves as if
the only users on Instagram were your sandbox users, and the only
media ever posted were the last 20 for each of these users.
I was trying to find media from users who are not in my sandbox, and so I received an error. The reason that my previous credentials weren't affected is because they are still grandfathered into the grace period, June 2016, at which time they will expire as well. Thanks!
I ran into this same issue. If your app is using oauth, you will cause Instagram to spaz out if you pass the client_secret and client_id stuff again. I had to take these out of my code. So I just pass the access_token now.
ig.use({ access_token: token });
ig.user_media_recent(config.userid, { count: 20 }, function(err, medias, pagination, remaining, limit) {
Were my equivalant statements.
EDIT: I forget to mention. This is after a cycle of these for those confused:
api.authorize_user
api.get_authorization_url