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JavaScript

Posted by Erez Gabay
Erez Gabay
4,779 Points

not able to connect with google API

Hi I'm trying to connect with the youtube API and the first step needed is to get an OAuth2.0 access token.

however I keep on getting the following error: status code: 400 Error: invalid_request Required parameter is missing: response_type

Im using NodeJS and my code is

const https = require('https'); var querystring = require('querystring'); var fs = require('fs'); var clientId = "*************************************.apps.googleusercontent.com";

module.exports.authorizeYoutubeAccount = function(){ // Build the post string from an object var getData = querystring.stringify({ 'client_id': clientId, 'redirect_uri': 'http://localhost:3000/oauth2callback', 'response_type': 'code', 'scope': 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly', 'access_type': 'offline' });

console.log("data: " + getData);

var getOptions = {
    hostname: 'accounts.google.com',
    port: 443,
    path: '/o/oauth2/auth',
    method: 'GET'
};

var req = https.request(getOptions, function (res) {
    console.log('statusCode: ', res.statusCode);
    if (res.statusCode != 200) {
        console.log("error");
    }
    console.log('headers: ', res.headers);
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
        console.log('Response: ' + chunk);
    }).on('error', function (err) {
        console.error(err);
    });
});
// post the data
req.write(getData);
req.end();

}