Meteor HTTP.post for Google OAuth2 - Required parameter is missing: grant_type

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1

I’m using Meteor’s built in HTTP.post to send an authorization code to the Google OAuth2 API to get a token back.

However I’m getting the error: Required parameter is missing: grant_type. Guessing it’s an encoding issue?

HTTP.post('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token', {data: {
    code: 'XXXXXXXXXXX',
    client_id : 'XXXXXXX.apps.googleusercontent.com',
    client_secret: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
    grant_type : 'authorization_code'
}}, function(error, response ){
    if ( error ) {
        console.log( error );
    } else {
        console.log( response );
    }
});
2

It should be

HTTP.post('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token', {params: {
    code: 'XXXXXXXXXXX',
    client_id : 'XXXXXXX.apps.googleusercontent.com',
    client_secret: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
    grant_type : 'authorization_code'
}}, function(error, response ){
    if ( error ) {
        console.log( error );
    } else {
        console.log( response );
    }
});

BTW, I hope you’re doing this on the server - you don’t want to expose your client secret on the browser!

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3

That worked! Thanks @robfallows.

I also want to note for anyone finding this that HTTP runs asynchronously if you include a callback function.

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