"Try it"-site and CURL requests gives me different AccessTokens

API Discussion
1

I am having a problem retrieving my AccessToken.

I can test my requests using my ClientID and ClientSecret with API examples from API reference site.

Using those examples I get sample URL that includes my AccessToken as a part of URL. I can create my solution with this AccessToken and with those example URLs.

Example URL in my solution to get character information:

“…/wow/character/”&pRealm&“/”&pCharName&“?fields=items&locale=en_GB&access_token=”&pAccessToken

I have included a request for AccessToken in my solution but that gives totally different AccessToken than using above method. I am using request as adviced in API Guides, using oauth.

This is my Python script:

import requests

data = {
‘grant_type’: ‘client_credentials’
}

response = requests.post(‘…/oauth/token’, data=data, auth=(‘xxx’, ‘yyy’))

print(response.text)

This requests gives me totally different access token that testing site’s access token. Any advice?

2

Not sure if understand what you mean by different access token, but here some information:

The API website uses your credentials to create a token using the OAuth2 authorization_code flow, this means the access token is bound to your account and you can fetch a list of characters or other account related data.

Your code is creating an access_token using the client_credentials flow, with this token you can access most endpoints except the ones tied to account data.

https://develop.battle.net/documentation/guides/using-oauth

3

Thank you for clearing this up… I’ve never done API requests before and I was so confused.

I just want to request my account data. Is there a way to request that AccessTokens with my ClientID and ClientSecret?

4

For any account data you need the user to “sing in with Battle net”, that means using the OAuth2 authorization code flow described in the API docs.