Problems understanding oauth authentication

[BarryCarlyon]

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request_data = {
    "client_id": CLIENT_ID,
    "client_secret": CLIENT_SECRET,
    "grant_type": "client_credentials",
    "scope": "channel:read:redemptions",
}

client_credentials is for server to server requests (generally) for public data only. Channel points is priviledged data.

This generates a token that doesn’t have a user, you need to use regular oAuth. And the token returned by the oAuth flow (step 3 in)

Getting OAuth Access Tokens

You can confirm a userID is in the token with the validate endpoint

Authentication