How do I connect my app to chat?

[BarryCarlyon]

@DeadPeng1

I have a feeling that I might just have to use a real account dedicated for the bot. Thank you for all the help.

Yeah it has to be a real account

@DeadPeng1

That is peculiar. Just clarifying, I get the oauth from the redirect, right?

http://localhost/#access_token=[access token]&scope=channel_editor&token_type=bearer

here you generated an implicit oAuth token

@DeadPeng1

After doing this again, results:

Link:
http://localhost/?code={code}&scope=chat%3Aread+chat%3Aedit+channel_editor

Here you generate a regular oAuth token but only got to step 2

As Dist pointed out, you need to take the code and exchange it for a token

@Freddy

@DeadPeng1

username: process.env.CLIENT_ID,

Looks like you’re using your app’s client id as username here instead of the bot’s name.

And yeah you tried to use your ClientID as the username instead of using the username for the user you generate the token for.