[GH-ISSUE #253] Entering an invalid URL in spotipy.util.prompt_for_user_token() obfuscates the error #138

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opened 2026-02-27 23:21:01 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @pl4nty on GitHub (Feb 11, 2018).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/253

.oauth2.parse_response_code() returns None when an invalid authentication URL is given, which causes .oauth2.get_access_token to return a '400: Bad Gateway' error. This error could be related to any of the Request Access Token parameters, making it hard to track down.
Replacing the return None with something like raise InvalidUrlError("Invalid URL") would make the error easier to trace.

Originally created by @pl4nty on GitHub (Feb 11, 2018). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/253 .oauth2.parse_response_code() returns None when an invalid authentication URL is given, which causes .oauth2.get_access_token to return a '400: Bad Gateway' error. This error could be related to any of the Request Access Token parameters, making it hard to track down. Replacing the `return None` with something like `raise InvalidUrlError("Invalid URL")` would make the error easier to trace.