Issue with Authentication API

[Ajit Vasudevan]

Hello,

I am trying to create/generate the auth token, but I am getting the following error from the https://api.xbrl.us/oauth2/token end point

{
“error”: “invalid_client”,
“error_description”: “Bad Client”
}

I checked the client ID and secret multiple times.

The following is the raw body (masked client id and secret):

grant_type:password
client_id:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
client_secret:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
username:username
password:pass
platform:pc

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Aj

[david.tauriello@xbrl.us]

Hi Ajit – what are you using to POST – ? – Insomnia, Postman or another testing client, or are you writing code in a language – ?

There are instructions for Insomnia posted at the end of the PDF documentation.

If you’re working in a language, check out the resources for PHP, Python and R linked in the list of free resources on the XBRL Data Community. Briefly, you need to POST body, and encoding to the token URL, then use the access_token as “Bearer $token” with your query.

If you’re still having an issue, post back and share the code you have and language you’re using.

David

[Ajit Vasudevan]

Thanks David. It works now. The issue was with the username and password

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