is that possible to use other token than those from twitchtokengenerator.com ?

[loupzeur]

I created a token usinig the following code :

def token():
    load_dotenv()
    url = 'https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token'
    form_data = {
        'client_id': os.getenv('TWITCH_CLIENT'),
        'client_secret':os.getenv('TWITCH_SECRET'),
        'grant_type':'client_credentials',
        'scope': ' '.join(['chat:read','chat:edit'])
        }
    server = requests.post(url, data=form_data)
    ret = server.json()['access_token']
    return ret

with the code given as example :

class Bot(commands.Bot):

    def __init__(self):
        # Initialise our Bot with our access token, prefix and a list of channels to join on boot...
        super().__init__(token=token(), prefix='?', initial_channels=['...'])

    async def event_ready(self):
        # We are logged in and ready to chat and use commands...
        print(f'Logged in as | {self.nick}')
        print(f'User id is | {self.user_id}')

    @commands.command()
    async def hello(self, ctx: commands.Context):
        # Send a hello back!
        await ctx.send(f'Hello {ctx.author.name}!')

I simply can't get the code running, it seems the token doesn't have the proper right, but when using a token generated from twitchtokengenerator.com it works .... what scope am I missing ?

[chillymosh]

I converted this to a discussion since it is not an issue with the library.

You are generating an App Token, these do not use scopes. You need to generate a User Oauth Flow token which use scopes and are associated to a user.
https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication/getting-tokens-oauth/#authorization-code-grant-flow

You should also be using aiohttp ideally as this is an async framework and requests is blocking.

• You could also use the Twitch CLI to generate the initial token and then just handle refreshing yourself.

[loupzeur]

ok, thanks