Authorization Error with Helix

API
1

Apologies if I’m missing something obvious, but I’m trying to access the Streams API in Helix.

1 I get client-credentials through the id.twitch.tv endpoint, like so:

auth_url = "https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id=" +  client_id + "&client_secret=" + client_secret + "&grant_type=client_credentials"

r = requests.post(auth_url, timeout=15)

r.raise_for_status()

info = r.json()

client_token = info['access_token']

This returns the token just fine.

2 Then, I pass this on to the endpoint:

headers = {
        'Client_ID': client_id,
        'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + client_token,
}

helix_url = "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=20"

helix_r = requests.get(helix_url, headers, timeout = 15)

helix_r.raise_for_status()

stream_info = helix_r.json()

print(stream_info)

And I get a 401 error. The message body says the “OAuth token is missing”.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

2

What language is this?

Is this Python and requests?

The quick start docs

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/

Says you have formatted your request wrong

helix_r = requests.get(helix_url, headers, timeout = 15)

should be

helix_r = requests.get(helix_url, headers=headers, timeout = 15)

I believe

3

Thanks for getting back to me. This is Python and I am using the requests library. I made the fix you suggested and I got the same error. I imagine it has something to do with encoding? I have used the same code (i.e., the call to the OAuth endpoint) to get and send the client-credentials via another API (that wraps the lower level guts) and it works. Just can’t figure out why my code isn’t working.