Getting this error => The client credentials are invalid

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Sehar Kazi

• July 29, 2021 10:38

$access_token_url = "https://api.box.com/oauth2/token";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $access_token_url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query([
'client_id' => 'a03qmxnzano36zkylmyx70wxgvx732ui',
'client_secret' => 'REDACTED',
'grant_type' => 'client_credentials'
]));

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;

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  Kourtney

  • July 29, 2021 15:33

  Hello Sehar, 

  It looks like you're missing `box_subject_type` and `box_subject_id`. Please follow the cURL sample here: 

  https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/client-credentials. 

  Best,

  Kourtney, Box Developer Advocate 

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  Sehar Kazi

  • July 30, 2021 04:17

  I have given that as well, but i keep getting the same error.

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  Kourtney

  • July 30, 2021 14:10

  Can you try reauthorizing your application in the Admin console?

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