google-chromegoogle-chrome-extensionspotifygoogle-chrome-appspotify-app

launchWebAuthFlow with Spotify returns "Authorization page could not be loaded"

I registered my app on Spotify. I made sure I had the URI added to my registered app. But still every time I run this code I keep getting the same error. I am also running this in the background so I know it's not that. What am I doing wrong?

Also I tried switching /spotify with /provider_cb. 

var client_id = '<my_client_id>';
var redirectUri = chrome.identity.getRedirectURL() + "/spotify";

chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow({
  "url": "https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?client_id="+client_id+
         "&redirect_uri="+ encodeURIComponent(redirectUri) + 
         "&response_type=token", 
  'interactive': true,  
},
function(redirect_url) { 
  console.log(redirect_url);
});

Here are my permissions:

"permissions": [
  "http://*/*", "tabs", "webNavigation", "activeTab", "storage", "identity",
  "declarativeContent", "https://accounts.spotify.com/*",  
  "https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/*"
]

On the first time I run my app after restarting Chrome, the sign-in page pops up like everything is fine, but after I log in I still get the same error: 

identity.launchWebAuthFlow: Authorization page could not be loaded.
Solution

  • You can use

    var redirectUri = chrome.identity.getRedirectURL("spotify");

    getRedirectUrl will return a url with a / at the end. so your original code was resulting in: 

    "https://<app_id>.chromiumapp.org//spotify"

    Instead you can pass endpoint as an argument to form url