Getting pledged user name from pledge webhook

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I have a serverless function that gets triggered by a Patreon webhook on new pledges and pledge updates. From that hook’s payload, I can get the user ID, and even the URL to, I assumed, the API endpoint that will give me more details about that user. For example, testing the webhook, returns https://www.patreon.com/api/user/XXXXX under data.relationships.user.links.related.

Unfortunately, trying to GET that endpoint, results in error 403 Unauthorized, but only when called from the serverless function. If I access this endpoint from the browser, including an incognito window, I see the entire JSON payload with all the data I would need.

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You can use your creator access token to do the GET call. But you should use v2 calls with v2 endpoints

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The V2 is cool and all, but it seems to require OAuth2 authentication. Since I’m running it as a serverless function, using some sort of an API key would be much simpler than OAuth

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You don’t have any means to save the resulting token somewhere? Even if local files etc? (not recommended)

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I could maybe store it in as env variables… So your suggestion is to create a one-off function that would fetch the OAuth tokens, save them somewhere, and have the actual functions reuse them? I’ll have to try it out

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Wouldnt env variables get cleared on any reboot. It would be much easier to have a database (any). That would enable you to build more complex functionality in future as well.