I'm trying to authenticate a user in the Spotify API, but it keeps returning me the error code "invalid_client". I'm implementing that on a Python Django solution, that's my code:
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic '+standard_b64encode(client_id)+standard_b64encode(client_secret)}
r = requests.post('https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token', {'code': code, 'redirect_uri': redirect_uri, 'grant_type': grant_type, 'headers': headers}).json()
Any idea why it's not working?
In spotify api docs it is:
Authorization
Required. Base 64 encoded string that contains the client ID and client secret key. The field must have the format: Authorization: Basic base64 encoded( client_id:client_secret)
So i guess you should do:
import base64
'Authorization' : 'Basic ' + base64.standard_b64encode(client_id + ':' + client_secret)
It's working for me so try it. If it doesn't work my code is:
@staticmethod
def loginCallback(request_handler, code):
url = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'
authorization = base64.standard_b64encode(Spotify.client_id + ':' + Spotify.client_secret)
headers = {
'Authorization' : 'Basic ' + authorization
}
data = {
'grant_type' : 'authorization_code',
'code' : code,
'redirect_uri' : Spotify.redirect_uri
}
data_encoded = urllib.urlencode(data)
req = urllib2.Request(url, data_encoded, headers)
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=30).read()
response_dict = json.loads(response)
Spotify.saveLoginCallback(request_handler, response_dict)
return
except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
return e
Hope it helps!
Are you sure you're providing client_id
& client_secret
in the proper format?
Looking at the docs, it suppose to be separated with :
.
Also try to run the same flow with curl first and then replicate with python.