Streamlabs API personal access token doesn't work (401 error)

Question

I'm trying to use Streamlabs API to have access to donations on my channel. Because Streamlabs use a complicated and time consuming system of app reviewing, I'm trying to use my personal API token available on my setting page :

But it doesn't work, when trying to reach https://streamlabs.com/api/v1.0/donations with a GET request and the access token provided in the previous screen, I obtains the following response :

{
    "error": "access_denied",
    "error_description": "The resource owner or authorization server denied the request."
}

I don't really understand what my access token is for if not to use the actual API...

Documentation about the API here : https://dev.streamlabs.com/reference#donations

Answer 1

I was stuck for a while like you, that when I just used the socket api, here is my python code but the same can be done with javascript or others.

pip install "python-socketio[client]"

import socketio

io = socketio.Client()
socket_access_token = ''

io.connect(f'https://sockets.streamlabs.com?token={socket_access_token}', transports='websocket')

@io.on('event')
def event(data):
    match data['type']:
        case 'donation':
            print(data['message'])

        case 'subscription':
            print(data['message'])