Todoist accesstoken

[robertweis56]

Hi, can anyone help me to understand where and how I get the accesstoken for Todoist.
A step by step guide would be very helpful. Must I have a premium account?

Thanks Robert

[sizer]

Did you figure it out??

[ninjabreadman]

@sizer Go here:

1. Create an app (e.g. “My Private MagicMirror”) in the developer’s console. If you don’t have a website, use example.com.
2. Then with your client ID and secret, construct an OAuth query (with whatever scope your app will need) and visit in a browser.
3. It will then redirect you to your app’s website with a code parameter. (If using example.com, it will fail to reach the site; just look at the address bar and find the code parameter.)
4. Use thecode parameter to exchange for an access token (e.g. using curl):

$ curl "https://todoist.com/oauth/access_token" \
    -d "client_id=0123456789abcdef" \
    -d "client_secret=secret" \
    -d "code=abcdef" \
    -d "redirect_uri=https://example.com"

[zdenek]

@ninjabreadman great, but I’m lost. 1. is clear, but what to do now, where to construct OAuth (whetever is it)…?..

thanks, Zdeněk

[ninjabreadman]

@zdenek Go here. Follow the instructions to create an OAuth string, that will look something like this:
https://todoist.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=0123456789abcdef&scope=data:read,data:delete&state=secretstring

[zdenek]

@ninjabreadman thx. My steps:

1. went to https://todoist.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=0123456789abcdef&scope=data:read,data:delete&state=secretstring
   where I used my client_id and a “state” used "client_secret
2. got
   https://example.com/?state=client_secert&code=string_of_characters
3. on MM from commandlind I run

curl "https://todoist.com/oauth/access_token" \
    -d "client_id=my_client_id" \
    -d "client_secret=my_client_secret" \
    -d "code=string_from_previous_step" \
    -d "redirect_uri=https://example.com"

4. got answer
   “access_token”:“another_string”,“token_type”:“Bearer”

so, I guess, that “another_string” is the right think for the module = access_token, right?

		{
			module: 'MMM-Todoist',
			position: 'top_center',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
			//header: 'Todoist', // This is optional
			config: { // See 'Configuration options' for more information.
 		         	accessToken: 'axxxxxxxxxxb',
				maximumEntries: 60,
				updateInterval: 10*60*1000, // Update every 10 minutes
				//projects: [ 166564794 ],
				fade: false
 				 }
		},

should be OK, but nothing :-(. Checked in browser:

div id="module_10_MMM-Todoist" class="module MMM-Todoist MMM-Todoist">div class="module-content">table class="normal small light">/table>/div>/div>

(removed < signs)

in Console no Warnings, no Erros…

any idea?

[zdenek]

i’m soooooooooo stupid sorry. I thougt, without define any ProjectID I’ll get ToDo of all Projects in my account. Nope. After add of at least one ID, it works…

sorry for annoying …
Zdeněk

[ninjabreadman]

@zdenek No problem, it happens to all of us. Glad to hear it’s working!

[AgP42]

Hello all,

I also get so many trouble to make it work, but thanks to your help it is now ok ! :grinning_face:

So no need to create that incredibly complicated “OAuth string”, the use of the “Test token” works perfectly fine :

But… It is mandatory to define “projects” value in the config.js file.
As the default value is [] I also consider it as optional…:flushed_face:

With this value defined, everything is OK !