Getting Connection errors on quickstart chapter to generate Token with Python (M2M)

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I am new using Auth0 and I am facing difficulties to generate a token using the snippet available on

I can reproduce the token generation with curl, on command line, but I can’t take the same result with the Python snippet, which is copied bellow, with my attempts:

import httplib, urllib
from decouple import config
AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET = config("AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET")
# AUTH0_CLIENT_ID = config("AUTH0_CLIENT_ID")
# AUTH0_AUDIENCE = config("AUTH0_AUDIENCE")
AUTH0_AUDIENCE = config("AUTH0_CLIENT_ID")
AUTH0_API_IDENTIFIER = config("AUTH0_API_IDENTIFIER")

conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("")
# payload = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=" + AUTH0_CLIENT_ID + "&client_secret=" + AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET + "&audience=" + AUTH0_AUDIENCE
# payload = {"grant_type": "client_credentials", "client_id": AUTH0_CLIENT_ID, 'client_secret': AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET, 'audience': AUTH0_AUDIENCE}
payload = urllib.urlencode({"grant_type": "client_credentials", "client_id": AUTH0_CLIENT_ID, 'client_secret': AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET, 'audience': AUTH0_AUDIENCE})
headers = { 'Content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
conn.request("POST", "/my-app.us.auth0.com/oauth/token", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))
return data

Am i missing something? My answers are one of the following (with different payload values bellow):

  • socket.gaierror: [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname
  • 401 Response
  • gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

The error is always on line “conn.request(“POST”, “/my-app.us.auth0.com/oauth/token”, payload, headers)”.

The value for the “audience” key seems to be the https://my-app.us.auth0.com/api/v2/ despite the link above tells that it is the API_IDENTIFIER

My snippet is on Python 2, but I had already tried it on Python 3 as well with similar results. Thanks in advance.

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Hey there!

Haven’t dived into your code snippets yet but got one question are you strictly following the quickstart and got such errors?

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Yes, I tried on Python 3 with exactly the same code, running as a script, as a view on my app and line by line on the python cli.

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Gotchya! Let me try reproduce it myself and see where it goes. I’ll get back to you as soon as I have a chance to do it.

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The following code worked for me. The strategy was to use the “requests” library instead of httplib/http.client

def generateAuth0Token():
    import ast
    import requests
    from decouple import config
    AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET = config("AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET")
    AUTH0_CLIENT_ID = config("AUTH0_CLIENT_ID")
    AUTH0_AUDIENCE = config("AUTH0_AUDIENCE")
    AUTH0_API_IDENTIFIER = config("AUTH0_API_IDENTIFIER")

    headers = { 'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
    data = {"grant_type": "client_credentials", "client_id": AUTH0_CLIENT_ID, 'client_secret':  AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET, 'audience': AUTH0_AUDIENCE}
    response = requests.post('https://my-app.us.auth0.com/oauth/token', headers=headers, data=data)
    content = response.content
    content = ast.literal_eval(content)
    token = content.get('access_token')
    return token
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Perfect! Thanks for sharing that!

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The team has been informed about that and they should implement the fix soon.

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