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davids
davids

Reputation: 5577

Google Apps Script and curl

This is probably a very simple problem, but I am pretty new to curl and have never had it properly explained. This is the first time I have had to get an access token via curl and I have never seen an example. My google searches have not been helpful.

I know how to make the transaction requests once I have the access token, but can't get the token to move on to that step.

Below is the api documentation example of how to get the token:

curl -X POST -u <API USERNAME>:<API SECRET KEY> https://api.neverbounce.com/v3/access_token\
-d grant_type=client_credentials\
-d scope=basic+user

How am I supposed to make this call in Google Apps Script since UrlFetchApp requires a url, but the url in this example is part of the request?

UPDATE

This is a sample of my code:

function NBpost() {
  var dataString = 'grant_type=client_credentials&scope=basic+user';
  var url = "https://api.neverbounce.com/v3/access_token";
  var options =
    {
      "method" : "post",
      "auth": {
        'user': <USERNAME>,
        'pass': <SECRET KEY>,
      },
      body : dataString,
      "muteHttpExceptions" : true
    };
  var response = JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options).getContentText());
}

The response is always the same: 

error:"invalid_request", 
error_description:"The grant type was not specified in the request"

I have also tried:

var dataString = {
  "grant_type": "client_credentials",
  "scope" : "basic user"
};

But the response does not change. What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE 2

I made the following changes:

function myFunction(){
    var url ='https://api.neverbounce.com/v3/access_token';
    var options = {
      method: "post",
      u: {
        <USERNAME> : <SECRET KEY>
      },
      payload: {
        "grant_type": "client_credentials",
        "scope": "basic user"
      },
      muteHttpExceptions: true
    };
    var response = JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options).getContentText());
}

Now, I get this error:

error:"invalid_client"
error_description:"Client credentials were not found in the headers or body"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4418

Answers (1)

Tanaike
Tanaike

Reputation: 201378

How about following sample script? I don't know whether this works fine, because I don't have <API USERNAME> and <API SECRET KEY>.

Sample script :

var apiusername = <API USERNAME>
var apisecretkey = <API SECRET KEY>
var url ='https://api.neverbounce.com/v3/access_token';
var options = {
  method: 'post',
  headers : {"Authorization" : " Basic " + Utilities.base64Encode(apiusername + ":" + apisecretkey)},
  payload: {
    "grant_type": "client_credentials",
    "scope": "basic+user"
  },
  muteHttpExceptions: true
};
var response = JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options).getContentText());

If this doesn't work or if I misunderstand your question, I'm sorry.

Upvotes: 3

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