Reinin

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Invalidate a Discord OAuth2 token in NodeJS

2024-01-23 oauth2 discordjs
The discordjs documentation does not include how to invalidate a token using JS. After a lot of trouble, I figured it out. In order to reduce dependency count, I am using the node:fetch module. async function invalidateToken(access_token) { const response = await fetch('https://discord.com/api/oauth2/token/revoke', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', }, body: new URLSearchParams({ 'client_id': process.env.CLIENT_ID, 'client_secret': process.env.CLIENT_SECRET, 'token': access_token, }), }); console.log(response); } We can see that this function creates a response variable which awaits a post request to the revocation endpoint using URLSearchparams in the body containing the token to revoke, the client id, and the client secret. Continue reading