Programattically Get User OAuth Token for Subscriber Notifications

[BarryCarlyon]

@MountainRiderAK

class TwitchWebhookInterface(object):

So you are using Twitch Webhooks.

You need to generate and use a “App Access Token” also called “OAuth client credentials flow”

That is documented here

Getting OAuth Access Tokens

You use the ClientID and ClientSecret to generate a server to server app access token, and specify that with your clientID in the headers to the webhook creation request.

@MountainRiderAK

So, once again, how do I get that “user_id” (AKA “channel_id”)?

You can use the App Access Token for this call also

@MountainRiderAK

headers = {"Client-ID": self.client_id}

becomes

headers = {"Client-ID": self.client_id, "Authorization": "Bearer " + yourGenerateToken}

You shouldn’t generate a token for every request, an app access token is valid for around 60 days.

POST https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token
    ?client_id=<your client ID>
    &client_secret=<your client secret>
    &grant_type=client_credentials

No scopes needed. What you did here:

@MountainRiderAK

I am using this script to test things:

curl --data "client_id=smwpepmr7s3yt9gqwlz628b2e4tww8" \
     --data "client_secret=<client_secret>" \
     --data "grant_type=client_credentials" \
     --data "scope=openid" \
     https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token

The output looks like this:

Got you a working token, you just don’t need any scopes