CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.jsapiauthentication
Sudhanshu Garg
Sudhanshu Garg

Reputation: 13

I need help trying to call 3rd party api with authentication from node server

I am trying to call 2 3rd party apis. 1st to login and receive Bearer token and 2nd to post message. 1st works fine and I get the token. but when I try to call second api to post message it fails, probably because I dont know how to set the received token in 2nd api

here is my code

var myJSONObject = {
    "email": auth[0],
    "password": auth[1]
};
req.post({
    url: "{{server_url}}/auth/login",
    method: "POST",
    json: true,
    body: myJSONObject
}, function (error, res, body){
    if(error){
        console.log(error.message);
    } else {
        var myJSONObject1 = {    
            "category":"SYSTEM",
            "type": "ALERT",
            "keywords":"FUNCTION|createSomethingLvl1",
            "status":"UNREAD",
            "from": "[email protected]",
            "to": "[email protected]",
            "subject": "Some nice subject",
            "body": "Some detailed body that contains information that informs the person" 
     };

        req.post({
            url: "{{server_url}}/api/message",
            method: "POST",
            headers: {
                "Authorization": res.body.access_token,
                "Content-Type": "application/json"
                },
            json: true,
            body: myJSONObject1
        }, function (err, res1, body){
            if(error){
                console.log(err.message);
            } else {
                console.log(res1.body); 
            }                    
        });
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1006

Answers (1)

jfriend00
jfriend00

Reputation: 707318

If this is a "typical" http bearer token, then you need the word "Bearer" in front of the token like this:

"Authorization": "Bearer " + res.body.access_token,

You can see examples of a Bearer token in the OAuth RFC 6750 where it shows the grammar as:

b64token    = 1*( ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" / "+" / "/" ) *"="
"Bearer" 1*SP b64token

And, here's an example from a Google API doc:

Authorization: Bearer AbCdEf123456

And, another example from an OAuth doc:

Authorization: Bearer vF9dft4qmT

Upvotes: 1

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