Perl

X.com OAuth 2.0 Refresh Access Token

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Demonstrates how to get an X.com OAuth2 access token from a desktop application or script. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$jsonToken = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/x.json");
if ($success != 1) {
    print "Failed to load x.json" . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# The access token JSON looks something like this:

# {
#   "token_type": "bearer",
#   "expires_in": 7200,
#   "access_token": "VmNDLVZiYUZwejY5Mkx3RblFTmo3ek1leTRGclMuZFVOUTVUTWpNbVZKb1N5OjE3NDAxNjk4MDVxNTE6MToxOaF0OjE",
#   "scope": "block.read follows.read offline.access tweet.write block.write like.write like.read users.read tweet.read follows.write",
#   "refresh_token": "eThOWVVFSTRqdVp3QTFndGsxM2ZGZmFyNWVrU0phM1JKbGdrbGNWRGJzb1loOjE3NDAwMjk4MDUxNTI6MTowOnJ0OjE"
# }

$oauth2 = chilkat::CkOAuth2->new();

$oauth2->put_TokenEndpoint("https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token");

# Replace this with your actual X.com OAuth2 Client ID and Client Secret
$oauth2->put_ClientId("OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID");
$oauth2->put_ClientSecret("OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET");

# Get the "refresh_token"
$oauth2->put_RefreshToken($jsonToken->stringOf("refresh_token"));

# Send the HTTP POST to refresh the access token..
$success = $oauth2->RefreshAccessToken();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $oauth2->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Load the access token response into the json object 
$jsonToken->Load($oauth2->accessTokenResponse());

# If an "expires_on" member does not exist, then add the JSON member by
# getting the current system date/time and adding the "expires_in" seconds.
# This way we'll know when the token expires.
if ($jsonToken->HasMember("expires_on") == 0) {
    $dtExpire = chilkat::CkDateTime->new();
    $dtExpire->SetFromCurrentSystemTime();
    $dtExpire->AddSeconds($jsonToken->IntOf("expires_in"));
    $jsonToken->AppendString("expires_on",$dtExpire->getAsUnixTimeStr(0));
}

# Save the new JSON access token response to a file.
# The access + refresh tokens contained in this JSON will be needed for the next refresh.
$sbJson = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$jsonToken->put_EmitCompact(0);
$jsonToken->EmitSb($sbJson);
$sbJson->WriteFile("qa_data/tokens/x.json","utf-8",0);

print "OAuth2 authorization granted!" . "\r\n";
print "New Access Token = " . $oauth2->accessToken() . "\r\n";