OAuth not working for me
POST: https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token
Headers:
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization:Basic SGFydFNvbnMtVGVzd........NjYtNjU3ZA==
Body:
grant_type:client_credentials
scope:https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope
Can someone help me, how to get access token?
salsha7566
Posted 3 years ago·Last reply 1 year ago
7 comments
salsha7566
OP3 years agoThank you all for the help and suggestions. It is working now. @shipscript
stesomme48
·1 year agoHow is it working now for you? What did you do?
Can you not provide more details for people that have the same issue? Geez 😄
an-57470
·1 year agoIam having the same Issue, did you manage to get it working?
salsha7566
OP3 years ago@shipscript Thanks for the reply. I am newer to the eBay APIs. Our requirement is to fetch Order details (Fulfilment APIs) for that I will need an access token.
I am trying to generate an access token from Postman with the following details, but I am receiving an '401 Unauthorized' error.
POST: https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/identity/v1/oauth2/token
Headers:
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization:Basic SGFydFNvbnMtVGVzdGluZy1TQlgtYTNm..kODEtNTc3Mi00OWQ2LWFmNjYtNjU3ZA==
Body: x-www-form-urlencoded
grant_type:client_credentials
scope:https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope
RESPONSE:
Not sure if it is Sandbox issue or any mistake in the http request.
shipscript
·3 years ago@salsha7566
Are you using the correct key set for the sandbox?
Is there a colon joining your keys prior to base64 encoding?
I am not familiar with Postman, so can't tell if the content is formatted correctly.
While you can test OAuth outside of any other API, you won't be able to use the public scope for accessing Order details, since that accesses the user account data. You'll need to add more scopes, separated by spaces.
I have limited experience with only a few APIs, so perhaps @five_notch_trading_post can offer more suggestions.
shipscript
·3 years ago@salsha7566
I've posted a working production example of OAuth for client credentials, running on PHP, that will both retrieve and refresh a token.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Token-Messaging-Sandbox-related/Sample-PHP-for-generating-and-renewing-a-Shopping-token/m-p/33540297
To use this token method, you will need two values from your account settings.
https://www.developer.ebay.com/my/keys
They are Client ID (App ID) and Client Secret (Cert ID). Those don't change unless you force an updated Client Secret, so you can use those keys indefinitely. They must be base64-encoded when passed in the "Authorization" field of the header (as correctly shown in your post).
Your post is using a grant type of "client_credentials" which means you won't be accessing private account data. Your application is the "client" and can only make calls to APIs that return publicly available data (like my shopping API example).
eBay will return a token in response to your call, and that token will have a limited duration, so you may need to refresh the token. So start with an empty token file, and when eBay sends you a token, based on your credentials, save that token to a file and use it for calls to eBay's public-data APIs. When the token expires, request a new token and continue.
thepattles
·1 year agoI am dabbling in bubble.io. Partly because I find it extremely interesting. Although API's are new to me, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to set up oAuth2 with the bubble.io api connector plugin. I have spent everybit of 15 hours reading into the eBay api guides. Any help?