I am currently stucked on making post requests to pinterest api. While I feel my code is working well, I keep getting back "Invalid Request Body" from the pinterest api.
Based on the documentation on their site, here is how they said the request should be made:
curl -X POST https://api.pinterest.com/v5/oauth/token --header "Authorization: Basic {base64 encoded string made of client_id:client_secret}" --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data-urlencode 'grant_type=authorization_code' --data-urlencode 'code={YOUR_CODE}' --data-urlencode 'redirect_uri=http://localhost/'
Here is how I made the request using Axios from my ExpressJS application:
const redirectUrl = process.env.PINTEREST_OAUTH_CALLBACK_URL;
const clientId = process.env.PINTEREST_APP_ID;
const clientSecret = process.env.PINTEREST_APP_SECRET;
let url = 'https://api.pinterest.com/v5/oauth/token';
let accessTokenRequestBody = {
code: encodeURIComponent(code), //code is defined at the top as received from pinterest
grant_type: encodeURIComponent("authorization_code"),
redirect_uri: encodeURIComponent(redirectUrl)
}
console.log(`RequestBody =${JSON.stringify(accessTokenRequestBody, null, 2)}`);
const clientIdAndSecretBase64 = Buffer.from(`${clientId}:${clientSecret}`).toString('base64');
axios.post(url, accessTokenRequestBody, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
'Authorization': `Basic ${clientIdAndSecretBase64}`
}
}).then((response) => {
let responseData = response.data;
console.log(`Pinterest ResponseData = ${JSON.stringify(responseData, null, 2)}`);
}).catch((e) => {
console.log(`${JSON.stringify(e.response.data)}`);
});
Here is the response I keep getting back:
{code:1, message:"Invalid request body"}
Here is the link to the documentation I am working with
https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/api/v5/#tag/Authentication
Please, what could I be doing wrong here, because I believed I provided everything they needed in the request.
Thanks in anticipation for your input.
const redirectUrl = process.env.PINTEREST_OAUTH_CALLBACK_URL;
const clientId = process.env.PINTEREST_APP_ID;
const clientSecret = process.env.PINTEREST_APP_SECRET;
let url = 'https://api.pinterest.com/v5/oauth/token';
let body = {
'code': code, //code is defined at the top as received from pinterest
'grant_type': 'authorization_code',
'redirect_uri': redirectUrl
};
// Fix code
let accessTokenRequestBody = Object.keys(body)
.map(k => `${encodeURIComponent(k)}=${encodeURIComponent(body[k])}`)
.join('&');
console.log(`RequestBody =${JSON.stringify(accessTokenRequestBody, null, 2)}`);
const clientIdAndSecretBase64 = Buffer.from(`${clientId}:${clientSecret}`).toString('base64');
axios.post(url, accessTokenRequestBody, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
'Authorization': `Basic ${clientIdAndSecretBase64}`
}
}).then((response) => {
let responseData = response.data;
console.log(`Pinterest ResponseData = ${JSON.stringify(responseData, null, 2)}`);
}).catch((e) => {
console.log(`${JSON.stringify(e.response.data)}`);
});