"Error 415" when requesting Spotify for tokens

Question

I am trying to recreate an oauth authentication connection in MeteorJS. I got to the request for access and update tokens, but now I get the 415 error all the time. Here is the corresponding code:

var results = HTTP.post( 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token', { data: { code: code, redirect_uri: redirectURI, grant_type: 'authorization_code', client_id: clientID, client_secret: clientSecret }, headers: { 'Content-Type':'application/json' } } ); 

I can't seem to find any other good documentation about the problem and the code in this demo:

https://github.com/spotify/web-api-auth-examples/tree/master/authorization_code

works great.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem (but in Java). A similar solution was

  headers: { 'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' } 

Answer 2

When submitting a JSON object, you need to use params instead of data . Related question: Unsupported grant type error when access_token requested on Spotify API with Meteor HTTP

Answer 3

If you do this clientide, this does not work because you are not allowed to send to another domain on the client side due to the same origin policy .

If this is the server side, I would recommend using the previously existing apit npm spotify module instead of writing your own queries. There are many apify api options on npmjs.org .

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