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kk1
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I’m attempting to integrate Airtable OAuth into an application of mine but the Airtable endpoints to fetch access tokens keep giving an “invalid_grant” error.

 

I’ve already looked at this post and haven’t been able to solve my problem with it: https://community.airtable.com/t5/development-apis/oauth2-problem-with-token-request/m-p/142198#M117...

 

Step one: The user clicks on a link and gets redirected to Airtable OAuth. Here’s how I generate the link:

```

const state = crypto.randomBytes(100).toString('base64url');

 

// prevents others from impersonating you

const codeVerifier = crypto.randomBytes(96).toString('base64url'); // 128 characters

const codeChallengeMethod = 'S256';

const codeChallenge = crypto

 .createHash('sha256')

 .update(codeVerifier) // hash the code verifier with the sha256 algorithm

 .digest('base64') // base64 encode, needs to be transformed to base64url

 .replace(/=/g, '') // remove =

 .replace(/\+/g, '-') // replace + with -

 .replace(/\//g, '_'); // replace / with _ now base64url encoded

 

await insertStringIntoRedis(state, codeVerifier, { EX: 600 }); // expire after 10 min

 

// build the authorization URL

const authorizationUrl = new URL('https://airtable.com/oauth2/v1/authorize');

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set('code_challenge', codeChallenge);

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set('code_challenge_method', codeChallengeMethod);

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set('state', state);

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set('client_id', process.env.AIRTABLE_CLIENT_ID ?? '');

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set(

 'redirect_uri',

 `${

   process.env.OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI ?? 'https://app.flyx.ai'

 }/settings/integrations/oauth-success`,

);

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set('response_type', 'code');

authorizationUrl.searchParams.set(

 'scope',

 'data.records:read data.records:write schema.bases:read schema.bases:write',

);

 

return { url: authorizationUrl.toString() };

 

After the user gets redirected to my app, I parse their code and state from the URL, and run this code:

 

export async function getAirtableTokens(

 authCode: string,

 authState: string,

): Promise<{ accessToken: string; refreshToken: string }> {

const codeVerifier = await getStringFromRedis(authState);

if (codeVerifier === null) throw new Error('Airtable redirect had a malformed state');

 

 const clientId = process.env.AIRTABLE_CLIENT_ID ?? '';

 const clientSecret = process.env.AIRTABLE_CLIENT_SECRET ?? '';

 const redirectUri = `${

   process.env.OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI ?? 'https://app.flyx.ai'

 }/settings/integrations/oauth/success`;

 

 console.log(`authCode: ${authCode}`);

 console.log(`codeVerifier: ${codeVerifier}`);

 console.log(`clientId: ${clientId}`);

 console.log(`clientSecret: ${clientSecret}`);

 

 const encodedCredentials = Buffer.from(`${clientId}:${clientSecret}`).toString('base64');

 const authorizationHeader = `Basic ${encodedCredentials}`;

 

 const headers = {

   'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',

   Authorization: authorizationHeader,

 };

 

 const response = await axios({

   method: 'POST',

   url: 'https://airtable.com/oauth2/v1/token',

   headers,

   // stringify the request body like a URL query string

   data: qs.stringify({

     client_id: clientId,

     code_verifier: codeVerifier,

     redirect_uri: redirectUri,

     code: authCode,

     grant_type: 'authorization_code',

   }),

 })

   .then((resp) => {

     return resp.data as { access_token: string; refresh_token: string };

   })

   .catch((err) => {

     console.log('Error from Airtable getting access tokens');

     console.log(JSON.stringify(err));

     throw new Error(`Error: ${JSON.stringify(err)}`);

   });

 

 return {

   accessToken: response.access_token,

   refreshToken: response.refresh_token,

 };

}

 

However, any time I run the `getAirtableTokens` function, I get a 400 response with an “invalid_grant” error.

 

I tried to follow the GitHub tutorial (https://github.com/Airtable/oauth-example) as closely as possible, yet the error continues to persist. 

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benmadine
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Hi kk1,

 

Did you manage to fix your issue? I am having similiar problems with error code 'invalid_grant' and cannot seem to figure out the issue.

 

Thanks

flynner87
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I am also running into this issue and cannot resolve it no matter what I try

firstcs
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Has this issue been resolved? I am having a similr issue with 'invalid_scope'.