Authorization via Postman= Client Authentication failed
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Posted on
Nov-05-2022
06:05 PM
Hello,
We cannot authenticate to our live account after trying the SDK, REST, Postman, etc. According to https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/postman/ I should be able to just change the client_id and client_secret in the forked postman project. When I do so, and run "Generate Access Token" in Postman I get:
{
"supported_authn_schemes": [
"email_password",
"remember_me"
],
"error": "invalid_client",
"error_description": "Client Authentication failed"
}
I get similar 401 errors in the SDK. I copied the client_id and client_secret from https://developer.paypal.com/dashboard/applications/edit (clicking on live, and then the app to get them).
Is there some extra step we have to take to enable this? We want to pull our own data to run custom royalty reports we have created.
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