Reputation: 1882

How to Get OAuth Access Token for Pinterest?

I am accessing Pinterest API for getting user's information by using this url but I can not find that how to generate an access token for Pinterest.

According to this blog post, it says that

Pinterest uses OAuth2 to authenticate users

Can you please tell me, from where I can generate OAuth access tokens for Pinterest?

Upvotes: 11

Answers (4)

Frederik van Lierde

Reputation: 66

Pinterest uses the User Flow or Oauth2 When you have an app you ant to use the app flow with an access token

So you need to create the flow yourself or use this tool online https://frederik.today/codehelper/tools/oauth-access-token-pinterest

To make it yourself

Request Token
Exchange code for Acces Token

https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/api/v5/

Upvotes: 0

Mohan Kumar

Reputation: 657

**USING C#**

public string GetOAuthToken(string data)
    {
        string strResult = string.Empty;
        try
        {
                string Clientid = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Pinterest_Clientid"];
                string ClientSecret = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Pinterest_ClientSecret"];
                string uri_token = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Pinterest_Uri_Token"];
                System.Net.HttpWebRequest req = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create(uri_token);

                string parameters = "grant_type=authorization_code"
                                    + "&client_id="
                                    + Clientid
                                    + "&client_secret="
                                    + ClientSecret
                                    + "&code="
                                    + data;

                req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
                req.Method = "POST";
                byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(parameters);
                System.IO.Stream os = null;
                req.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
                os = req.GetRequestStream();
                os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
                System.Net.WebResponse webResponse = req.GetResponse();
                System.IO.Stream stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
                System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(stream);
                string response = reader.ReadToEnd();
                Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject o = Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(response);
                strResult = "SUCCESS:" + o["access_token"].ToString();                    
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            strResult = "ERROR:" + ex.Message.ToString();
        }
        return strResult;
    }

Refer

Upvotes: 2