How to obtain access token?

[TheShubhendra]

I am passing app_id and app_secrer to the client object, so it should request an access token automatically, but it doesn't

[browniebroke]

It doesn't, our documentation has a section on authentication. Because this has to be authorized client side (the user has to enter their username & password to authorise your app), we cannot do it just with the app ID and app secret. Our API is a bit misleading, we should probably drop these parameters as they aren't really used.

If you don't have a server yet to do the client side auth, you may obtain a token by running the oauth.py script. It's more a tool to develop on Deezer Python itself than for users of the library, but it might be useful to tinker in early stages. The documentation has a section on how to use it.

Let me know how this goes, if anything is unclear, we can improve the docs.

[github-actions]

Assuming the original issue was solved, it will be automatically closed now.

[browniebroke]

I've released a CLI tool if you need to obtain a token to play with the API: https://pypi.org/project/deezer-oauth-cli/