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doesn't accept creator access token #3

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balupton opened this issue Jun 8, 2016 · 4 comments
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doesn't accept creator access token #3

balupton opened this issue Jun 8, 2016 · 4 comments

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@balupton
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balupton commented Jun 8, 2016

if I go to https://www.patreon.com/platform/documentation/clients there is a creator access token property, if I use that like so:

const patreon = require('patreon').default

const CREATOR_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'asd'

const client = patreon(CREATOR_ACCESS_TOKEN)
client('/current_user', (err, data) => {
    if (err) return console.error(err)
    console.log(data)
})

I get back:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<title>401 Unauthorized</title>
<h1>Unauthorized</h1>
<p>The server could not verify that you are authorized to access the URL requested.  You either supplied the wrong credentials (e.g. a bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.</p>

SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
    at Object.parse (native)
    at /Users/balupton/Projects/accounting/sponsored/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/body.js:44:15
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7)
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21echoes commented Jun 10, 2016 •
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Hey @balupton! I'm unable to reproduce your issue. Could you please email platform@patreon.com with more details so I can help you debug?

@balupton
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balupton commented Jun 11, 2016 •
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@21echoes cheers, email sent

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21echoes commented Jun 11, 2016 •
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Responded, and copy/pasted here in case others can learn from it:

Your access token is expired. Please use the patreon.oauth(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET).refreshToken(REFRESH_TOKEN, callback) method to retrieve a new access and refresh token.

So sorry about the confusion, our documentation failed you in two ways:

  1. https://www.patreon.com/platform/documentation/clients should either not show expired access tokens, or should make it very clear that the access token is expired (and probably have a "refresh this token" button as well)
  2. https://github.com/Patreon/patreon-js did not make it clear that the refreshToken method even existed

Stuff like this is why the public-facing API is still in semi-hidden beta :( but with help from people like you, we hope to find more and more of these short-comings and get it ready for broader release next quarter! I'll make an issue on our internal tracker for that first issue, and a public one here on this repo for the second issue.

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balupton commented Jun 13, 2016 •
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@21echoes perfect that did the trick, calling .refreshToken even updated the tokens on https://www.patreon.com/platform/documentation/clients too

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