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You'll first send the user to the Twitch authorization endpoint. This URL is made up of a the base authorization URL (https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/oauth2/authorize) and query string parameters that define what you're requesting. The required parameters are response_type, client_id, redirect_uri, and...

When the user goes to the authorization endpoint, they will be asked to give your application permission to the scopes that you've requested. They can decline this, so you must make sure to take that into consideration in your code. After they've allowed your application access, the user will be red...

Now that you have an authorization code, you can make a POST to the token endpoint (https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/oauth2/token) to get an OAuth token. You will receive a JSON-encoded access token, refresh token, and a list of the scopes approved by the user. You can now use that token to make authent...