Yelp Fusion: Cannot get Tokens

Question

I'm trying to access the Yelp fusion API. I am following the documentation and came to this code:

const request = require('request');

// As you can see the common error of there being a whitespace
// in one of these is not the case here
const clientId = 'O<removed>w';
const clientSecret = 'm<removed>r';

const options = {
    url: 'https://api.yelp.com/oauth2/token',
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    },
    json: {
        'grant_type': 'client_credentials',
        'client_id': clientId,
        'client_secret': clientSecret
    }
};

request(options, (err, res, body) => {
    if(err) {
        return console.log(err);
    }
    console.log(body);
});

Using APIGee I am getting a correct response with this exact same call, however on my OVH VPS I am getting this error: (Note that this is from the body variable)

{ error:
    { code: 'VALIDATION_ERROR',
      description: 'client_id or client_secret parameters not found. Make sure to provide client_id and client_secret in the body with the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content-type' } }

I believe I am setting up the call correctly. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Thank you!

Answer 1

You need to change the options to submit the data correctly. Data goes into body field and if it's a JSON object instead a string you need to set json:true

const options = {
    url: 'https://api.yelp.com/oauth2/token',
    method: 'POST', 
    body: {
        'grant_type': 'client_credentials',
        'client_id': clientId,
        'client_secret': clientSecret
    },
    json: true
};

Also, I don't think headers is required.

Check Request options documentation