OAuth Token is missing response when trying to use any function

[ankoure]

When I try to work through the example I receive this response. Unclear where the Oauth token is supposed to be added.

Error in get_streams(first = 15, language = "en") :
OAuth token is missing

[Freguglia]

Hi @ankoure, thanks for letting me know. Did you setup your credentials using the twitch_auth() function as specified in the Authenticantion section of the README file?

You can setup an OAuth token by calling the twitch_auth() function after you setup TWITCH_CLIENT_ID and TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables.

[ankoure]

I added the TWITCH_CLIENT_ID and TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET to the r environ file, then restarted R. I used the twitch_auth() function and it ran without an error but it did not prompt anything additional. Is twitch_auth() supposed to prompt something or should I be using the auth token in the function?

[Freguglia]

twitch_auth() handles the authentication process automatically, so you never really have to deal with the tokens manually. What it does in the backend is:

• a POST request to https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token is sent using the credentials (TWITCH_CLIENT_ID and TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET) found in your .Renviron file.
• an access token is then created by the Twitch API and it is sent to you in the response of the request, as described in the Client credentials flow
• the received access token is read and passed to httr's set_config() so that it will be automatically passed as a header in future requests made by httr.
• now any request made by the package's functions (e.g. get_streams()) is made with the token as a header.

In summary, twitch_auth() obtains the token for you and automatically adds it to every future request made by rTwitchAPI functions. If it ran without any error, then the other functions should work normally.

I think I'll add some kind of feedback in twitch_auth() so that is becomes clearer that something happened in the background and you're now able to use the other functions.