I have some Python code that has successfully been making API calls for months (to specifically start a Workflow). It suddenly stopped working the week before last. When I went to investigate, the code that gets me an access token has suddenly stopped working, returning the normal error of {'error': 'invalid_grant', 'error_description': 'Grant credentials are invalid'}
My question is, is there some kind yearly “account refresh” I need to do? Or is there a backend token I am not aware of that needs a refresh? I did check and my client secret, client id, and service account id are all correct.
Here is a simplified version of the code.
def get_access_token(client_id_var, client_secret_var, service_account_id):
#This URL gets us our access token
# Define the URL
url = "https://api.box.com/oauth2/token"
# Define the request parameters
payload = {
"client_id": client_id_var,
"client_secret": client_secret_var,
"grant_type": "client_credentials",
"box_subject_type": "user",
"box_subject_id": service_account_id}
# Define headers
headers = {
"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
}
# Send POST request
#This sends all of the above information to box and in return it gives us our access token.
response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
response_json = response.json()
print(response.json())
access_token = response_json['access_token']
return(access_token)
def create_header(client_id_var, client_secret_var, service_account_id):
access_token = get_access_token(client_id_var, client_secret_var, service_account_id)
headers = {
'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}',
'Box-Client-Id': client_id_var,
'Box-Client-Secret': client_secret_var}
print("Sucesfully Got the Access Token and Created the Header")
return(headers)
And then I’d use the header to make the API Calls. Again, this worked successfully for months and I checked and my client id, secret, and account id have not changed.
