Error "This API does not support client credentials for authorization." when trying to call an endpoint with Server-to-Server OAuth App credentials

API and Webhooks Authentication
1

API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)
(https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/:userId/meetings?type=live&page_size=30&page_number=1)

Description
I am working on updating our authentication from JWT to OAuth. I followed the instructions to create a Server-to-Server OAuth app, noting the account ID, client key, and client secret. Now I am attempting to do some test calls in Postman, to the meetings API.

I can successfully pull a Bearer Token, but when I then use it to make the call, the endpoint returns:

"code": 124,
"message": "This API does not support client credentials for authorization."

Error?
“code”: 124,
“message”: “This API does not support client credentials for authorization.”

How To Reproduce
1.) Create Server-to-Server OAuth application.
2.) Note account ID, client key, and client secret
3.) Set up Postman for OAuth 2.0 authentication, and get new access token
4.) Use that token for a call to the endpoint.
5.) Error is returned.

2

Hi @rich1 ,

please make sure that the grant type is “account_credentials” and not “client_credentials” .
That should fix the issue.

Thanks

3

In Postman, how should I enter this in their OAuth authentication flow? I’ve been trying to do a custom call to /oauth/token, but I can’t get it to work. I get a 405 error.

To be more specific, I had a GET call to /oauth/token, with account_credentials for grant type and account ID specified, plus a Base64 representation of client key and secret (both as an Authorization header and body). I’m unable to get that to work.

I’m trying to prototype and validate in Postman before I start moving this into my production codebase. I appreciate your help and support.

4

To be clear, what happens when I do this is a 405 Error is returned.

5

I resolved this. I was calling a GET instead of a POST.

6

Hi I also got the same error . I have a member account . I used the client credentials that admin gave. after taking the token I cant get MeetingDetails. what is the reason. Here is my code,

import requests as rq
import base64
import json

cID=‘…’
cSec=‘…’
userID=“…”

#credential_ID:credential_Secret
credentials= f"{cID}:{cSec}"
#encode for base =64
bStream= credentials.encode(“ascii”) #bit stream
encode64= base64.b64encode(bStream)
sEncode= encode64.decode(“ascii”)

auth_url=“https://zoom.us/oauth/token?grant_type=client_credentials”
header={“Authorization”: f"Basic {sEncode}"}

res = rq.post(auth_url,headers=header)

token= res.json()[“access_token”]
print(token)
header2 = {“authorization”: f"bearer {token}"}
#print(header2)
res2 = rq.get(“https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/cID”, headers=header2)

print(res2.json())

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I got this : {‘code’: 124, ‘message’: ‘This API does not support client credentials for authorization.’}

8

hello,
I’ve the same problem with this endpoint :
“https://api.zoom.us/v2/meetings/“.$meeting_id.”/recordings”

my error : "resulted in a 401 Unauthorized response: {“code”:124,“message”:“This API does not support client credentials for authorization.”} "

I can’t download my meeting recordings.

I have a JWT app that has been doing this for 2 years but it will be deprecated in June 2023.

I tried to create an OAuth app but I can’t whitelist a domain because students need to be able to enter the Zoom meeting as soon as the host starts the room and the students don’t all have the same domain.

can you help me find a solution?

Thanks

Selim