Get an Twitch OAuth Token for Server-to-Server Requests

If you, like me, are running chatbots and other streaming tools, you’ll need an OAuth token as of May 11, 2020.

I built this helper to create a convenient way to quickly get that access token for use in my various streaming bots and apps.

Quickstart

# install the package
npm i @jlengstorf/get-twitch-oauth

TWITCH_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR_TWITCH_CLIENT_ID>
TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET>

const { getTwitchAccessToken } = require('@jlengstorf/get-twitch-oauth');
const { access_token } = getTwitchAccessToken();

For a more complete example, see demo/index.js.

param	required	default	description
`client_id`	no	`process.env.TWITCH_CLIENT_ID`	your Twitch app’s client ID
`client_secret`	no	`process.env.TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET`	your Twitch app’s client secret
`grant_type`	no	`"client_credentials"`	for app-to-app tokens, this must be `"client_credentials"`
`scopes`	no	`""`	any permission scopes required by your app