Authorization Code Flow: 500 Internal Server Error at initial step of authorization

drew_mich — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 20:36:55 GMT

Let me preface this by saying I am new to working with APIs and making requests.

I am running a website with via flask on an AWS EC2 instance with ubuntu 20.04 (not sure if this will help but just to give as much info as possible). So far I have been following the Authorization Code Flow guide on github, but I have been having some trouble.

Here is a snippet of my app.py file for the flask app:

CLIENT_ID = credentials.clientid SPOTIFY_AUTH_URL = "https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize" CLIENT_SIDE_URL = "http://www.drewmi.ch" PORT = 80 REDIRECT_URI = "{}:{}/redirect".format(CLIENT_SIDE_URL, PORT) SCOPE = "playlist-modify-private" STATE = "" @app.route("/") def home_function(): return render_template("home.html") @app.route("/spotify") def spotify(): payload = { 'client_id': CLIENT_ID, 'response_type': 'code', 'redirect_uri': REDIRECT_URI, 'state' : STATE, 'scope': SCOPE, } res = make_response(redirect(f'{SPOTIFY_AUTH_URL}/?{urlencode(payload)}')) return res @app.route("/redirect") def redirect(): startup.getUserToken(request.args['code']) return render_template("redirect.html")

When I navigate to the /spotify page on my website, I don't even make it to the spotify login prompt. I get a 500 Internal Server Error. On the spotify dashboard I have my redirect URI set to "http://www.drewmi.ch/redirect", I've found many people have made the mistake there, but I don't think that's the case here.

The flow I'm aiming to have is /spotify -> login -> /redirect -> ...

Thank you,

Drew

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