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I'm trying to use this guide to get access token.

Here is my main file:

import requests

from utils import make_basic_auth_header, conf
code = '<Auth code here>'
url = "%s/identity/v1/oauth2/token" % conf('EBAY_API_PREFIX')
headers = {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Authorization': make_basic_auth_header()
    }

data = {
    'grant_type': 'authorization_code',
    # 'grant_type': 'refresh_token',
    'state': None,
    'code': code,
    'redirect_uri': conf('EBAY_RUNAME')
}
r = requests.post(
    url,
    data=data,
    headers=headers,
)

Here's the make_basic_auth_header() function:

def make_basic_auth_header():
    auth_header_payload = '%s:%s' % (conf('EBAY_APP_ID'), conf('EBAY_CERT_ID'))
    auth_header_base64 = base64.b64encode(auth_header_payload)
    auth_header = 'Basic %s' % auth_header_base64
    return auth_header

But all I get in r.json() is:

{u'error_description': u'request is missing a required parameter or malformed.', u'error': u'invalid_request'}

I'm frustrated - what am I doing wrong?

Dmitry Arkhipenko
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  • Addition: my files has python2 strings - not unicode. I've also tried switching to unicode - it didn't help – Dmitry Arkhipenko Jun 20 '17 at 09:39
  • Have you tried passing the data dict as a json formatted str? E.g. after `import json` `data=json.dumps(data)` – etemple1 Jun 20 '17 at 15:44
  • It looks like the ebay link is a dead link now and I'm having trouble getting the oauth process to work. What is the "auth code" above meant to be? – user1991179 Dec 26 '21 at 17:47

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sorry, I was stupid enough and I didn't see the tickbox on ebay.here's the tickbox, after I've clicked it

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  • You are legend mate. Spent an hour figuring why sandbox wasa working and prod not. This should be somewhere on their documentation. Thumbs Up – velval Mar 06 '20 at 10:04