Refresh Access Tokens

Refresh your access tokens if they have expired.

We'll cover the following

Client credential access token

Click the "Run" button to generate a new client credential access token.

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const endpointUrl = new URL('https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token');
const queryParameters = new URLSearchParams({
  grant_type: 'client_credentials'
});
const required_ids = Buffer.from('{{CLIENT_ID}}:{{CLIENT_SECRET}}');
const encoded = required_ids.toString('base64');
headerParameters = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Authorization': 'Basic '+encoded
}
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: headerParameters
};
async function fetchAccessToken() {
  try {
    endpointUrl.search = queryParameters;
    const response = await fetch(endpointUrl, options);
    printResponse(response);
  } catch (error) {
    printError(error);
  }
}
fetchAccessToken();

Authorization code access token

Use the code below to generate an authorization code access token using a refresh token.

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const endpointUrl = new URL('https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token');
const queryParameters = new URLSearchParams({
  grant_type: 'refresh_token',
  refresh_token: '{{REFRESH_TOKEN}}'
});
const required_ids = Buffer.from('{{CLIENT_ID}}:{{CLIENT_SECRET}}');
const encoded = required_ids.toString('base64');
headerParameters = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Authorization': 'Basic '+encoded
}
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: headerParameters
};
async function refreshAccessToken() {
  try {
    endpointUrl.search = queryParameters;
    const response = await fetch(endpointUrl, options);
    printResponse(response);
  } catch (error) {
    printError(error);
  }
}
refreshAccessToken();