I followed the Pinterest's instructions to authenticate a user and after completing step 2 I am holding an access token in my hands. However, when I use this access token to make an API call I get the following response:
{"status": "failure", "code": 3, "host": "coreapp-devplatform-devapi-179", "generated_at": "Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:11:35 +0000", "message": "Authorization failed.", "data": null}
When I use the Token Generator the API calls succeed. In both cases I tried:
https://api.pinterest.com/v1/me/?access_token=<YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN>
Any ideas?
Update: Zack Argyle from Pinterest just tweeted they are working on a fix on their end. https://twitter.com/zackargyle/status/648547619229138944
For those of you who are facing the issue when requesting for access_token in the post request include client_secret too in the 2nd step
https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/api/authentication/
i.e the post params while requesting this end point https://api.pinterest.com/v1/oauth/token will be:
grant_type Must be authorization_code
client_id This is your app ID.
client_secret This is your app Secret
code The authorization code passed to your redirect URI
Zack Argyle from Pinterest just tweeted that they deployed a fix which solves the problem I described:
https://twitter.com/zackargyle/status/648602180002312192
Summing it up:
- Follow the instructions on https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/api/authentication/
- Pass the client_secret not in the first but in the second request
- Use response_type=code in the first request
