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MSAL Error message AADSTS65005 when trying to get token for accessing custom api

I downloaded the example below to get an access token from MS Graph and it worked fine. Now I changed the code to get a token from a custom web API. On apps.dev.microsoft.com I registered a client application and an the API.
Client and server registration in AD
private static async Task<AuthenticationResult> GetToken()
{
const string clientId = "185adc28-7e72-4f07-a052-651755513825";
var clientApp = new PublicClientApplication(clientId);
AuthenticationResult result = null;
string[] scopes = new string[] { "api://f69953b0-2d7f-4523-a8df-01f216b55200/Test" };
try
{
result = await clientApp.AcquireTokenAsync(scopes, "", UIBehavior.SelectAccount, string.Empty);
}
catch (Exception x)
{
if (x.Message == "User canceled authentication")
{
}
return null;
}
return result;
}
When I run the code I login to AD via the dialog en get the following exception in the debugger:
Error: Invalid client Message = "AADSTS65005: The application
'CoreWebAPIAzureADClient' asked for scope 'offline_access' that
doesn't exist on the resource. Contact the app vendor.\r\nTrace ID:
56a4b5ad-8ca1-4c41-b961-c74d84911300\r\nCorrelation ID:
a4350378-b802-4364-8464-c6fdf105cbf1\r...
Error message
Help appreciated trying for days...

For anyone still striking this problem, please read this:
https://www.andrew-best.com/posts/please-sir-can-i-have-some-auth/
You'll feel better after this guy reflects all of your frustrations, except that he works it out...
If using adal.js, for your scope you need to use
const tokenRequest = {
scopes: ["https://management.azure.com/user_impersonation"]
};
I spent a week using
const tokenRequest = {
scopes: ["user_impersonation"]
};
.. since that is the format that the graph API scopes took

As of today, the V2 Endpoint does not support API access other than the Microsoft Graph. See the limitations of the V2 app model here.
Standalone Web APIs
You can use the v2.0 endpoint to build a Web API that is secured with
OAuth 2.0. However, that Web API can receive tokens only from an
application that has the same Application ID. You cannot access a Web
API from a client that has a different Application ID. The client
won't be able to request or obtain permissions to your Web API.
For the specific scenario that you are trying to accomplish, you need to use the V1 App Model (register apps on https://portal.azure.com).
In the very near future, V2 apps will be enabled to call other APIs other than Microsoft Graph, so your scenario will be supported, but that is just not the case today. You should keep an eye out on our documentation for this update.

In your (server) application registration in AAD, you need to specify your scopes in the oauth2Permissions element.
You may already have a user_impersonation scope set. Copy that as a baseline, give it a unique GUID and value, and then AAD will let your client request an access token with your new scope.

Google Data API Authorization Redirect URI Mismatch

Background
I am wanting to write a small, personal web app in .NET Core 1.1 to interact with YouTube and make some things easier for me to do and I am following the tutorials/samples in Google's YouTube documentation. Sounds simple enough, right? ;)
Authenticating with Google's APIs seems impossible! I have done the following:
Created an account in the Google Developer Console
Created a new project in the Google Developer Console
Created a Web Application OAuth Client ID and added my Web App debug URI to the list of approved redirect URIs
Saved the json file provided after generating the OAuth Client ID to my system
In my application, my debug server url is set (and when my application launches in debug, it's using the url I set which is http://127.0.0.1:60077).
However, when I attempt to authenticate with Google's APIs, I recieve the following error:
That’s an error.
Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
The redirect URI in the request, http://127.0.0.1:63354/authorize/,
does not match the ones authorized for the OAuth client.
Problem
So now, for the problem. The only thing I can find when searching for a solution for this is people that say
just put the redirect URI in your approved redirect URIs
Unfortunately, the issue is that every single time my code attempts to authenticate with Google's APIs, the redirect URI it is using changes (the port changes even though I set a static port in the project's properties). I cannot seem to find a way to get it to use a static port. Any help or information would be awesome!
NOTE: Please don't say things like "why don't you just do it this other way that doesn't answer your question at all".
The code
client_id.json
{
"web": {
"client_id": "[MY_CLIENT_ID]",
"project_id": "[MY_PROJECT_ID]",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_secret": "[MY_CLIENT_SECRET]",
"redirect_uris": [
"http://127.0.0.1:60077/authorize/"
]
}
}
Method That Is Attempting to Use API
public async Task<IActionResult> Test()
{
string ClientIdPath = #"C:\Path\To\My\client_id.json";
UserCredential credential;
using (var stream = new FileStream(ClientIdPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeReadonly },
"user",
CancellationToken.None,
new FileDataStore(this.GetType().ToString())
);
}
var youtubeService = new YouTubeService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = this.GetType().ToString()
});
var channelsListRequest = youtubeService.Channels.List("contentDetails");
channelsListRequest.Mine = true;
// Retrieve the contentDetails part of the channel resource for the authenticated user's channel.
var channelsListResponse = await channelsListRequest.ExecuteAsync();
return Ok(channelsListResponse);
}
Project Properties

The Original Answer works, but it is NOT the best way to do this for an ASP.NET Web Application. See the update below for a better way to handle the flow for an ASP.NET Web Application.
Original Answer
So, I figured this out. The issue is that Google thinks of a web app as a JavaScript based web application and NOT a web app with server side processing. Thus, you CANNOT create a Web Application OAuth Client ID in the Google Developer Console for a server based web application.
The solution is to select the type Other when creating an OAuth Client ID in the Google Developer Console. This will have Google treat it as an installed application and NOT a JavaScript application, thus not requiring a redirect URI to handle the callback.
It's somewhat confusing as Google's documentation for .NET tells you to create a Web App OAuth Client ID.
Feb 16, 2018 Updated Better Answer:
I wanted to provide an update to this answer. Though, what I said above works, this is NOT the best way to implement the OAuth workflow for a ASP.NET solution. There is a better way which actually uses a proper OAuth 2.0 flow. Google's documentation is terrible in regards to this (especially for .NET), so I'll provide a simple implementation example here. The sample is using ASP.NET core, but it's easily adapted to the full .NET framework :)
Note: Google does have a Google.Apis.Auth.MVC package to help simplifiy this OAuth 2.0 flow, but unfortunately it's coupled to a specific MVC implementation and does not work for ASP.NET Core or Web API. So, I wouldn't use it. The example I'll be giving will work for ALL ASP.NET applications. This same code flow can be used for any of the Google APIs you've enabled as it's dependent on the scopes you are requesting.
Also, I am assuming you have your application set up in your Google Developer dashboard. That is to say that you have created an application, enabled the necessary YouTube APIs, created a Web Application Client, and set your allowed redirect urls properly.
The flow will work like this:
The user clicks a button (e.g. Add YouTube)
The View calls a method on the Controller to obtain an Authorization URL
On the controller method, we ask Google to give us an Authorization URL based on our client credentials (the ones created in the Google Developer Dashboard) and provide Google with a Redirect URL for our application (this Redirect URL must be in your list of accepted Redirect URLs for your Google Application)
Google gives us back an Authorization URL
We redirect the user to that Authorization URL
User grants our application access
Google gives our application back a special access code using the Redirect URL we provided Google on the request
We use that access code to get the Oauth tokens for the user
We save the Oauth tokens for the user
You need the following NuGet Packages
Google.Apis
Google.Apis.Auth
Google.Apis.Core
Google.apis.YouTube.v3
The Model
public class ExampleModel
{
public bool UserHasYoutubeToken { get; set; }
}
The Controller
public class ExampleController : Controller
{
// I'm assuming you have some sort of service that can read users from and update users to your database
private IUserService userService;
public ExampleController(IUserService userService)
{
this.userService = userService;
}
public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
{
var userId = // Get your user's ID however you get it
// I'm assuming you have some way of knowing if a user has an access token for YouTube or not
var userHasToken = this.userService.UserHasYoutubeToken(userId);
var model = new ExampleModel { UserHasYoutubeToken = userHasToken }
return View(model);
}
// This is a method we'll use to obtain the authorization code flow
private AuthorizationCodeFlow GetGoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(params string[] scopes)
{
var clientIdPath = #"C:\Path\To\My\client_id.json";
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(clientIdPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
var clientSecrets = GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets;
var initializer = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Initializer { ClientSecrets = clientSecrets, Scopes = scopes };
var googleAuthorizationCodeFlow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(initializer);
return googleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
}
}
// This is a route that your View will call (we'll call it using JQuery)
[HttpPost]
public async Task<string> GetAuthorizationUrl()
{
// First, we need to build a redirect url that Google will use to redirect back to the application after the user grants access
var protocol = Request.IsHttps ? "https" : "http";
var redirectUrl = $"{protocol}://{Request.Host}/{Url.Action(nameof(this.GetYoutubeAuthenticationToken)).TrimStart('/')}";
// Next, let's define the scopes we'll be accessing. We are requesting YouTubeForceSsl so we can manage a user's YouTube account.
var scopes = new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeForceSsl };
// Now, let's grab the AuthorizationCodeFlow that will generate a unique authorization URL to redirect our user to
var googleAuthorizationCodeFlow = this.GetGoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow(scopes);
var codeRequestUrl = googleAuthorizationCodeFlow.CreateAuthorizationCodeRequest(redirectUrl);
codeRequestUrl.ResponseType = "code";
// Build the url
var authorizationUrl = codeRequestUrl.Build();
// Give it back to our caller for the redirect
return authorizationUrl;
}
public async Task<IActionResult> GetYoutubeAuthenticationToken([FromQuery] string code)
{
if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(code))
{
/*
This means the user canceled and did not grant us access. In this case, there will be a query parameter
on the request URL called 'error' that will have the error message. You can handle this case however.
Here, we'll just not do anything, but you should write code to handle this case however your application
needs to.
*/
}
// The userId is the ID of the user as it relates to YOUR application (NOT their Youtube Id).
// This is the User ID that you assigned them whenever they signed up or however you uniquely identify people using your application
var userId = // Get your user's ID however you do (whether it's on a claim or you have it stored in session or somewhere else)
// We need to build the same redirect url again. Google uses this for validaiton I think...? Not sure what it's used for
// at this stage, I just know we need it :)
var protocol = Request.IsHttps ? "https" : "http";
var redirectUrl = $"{protocol}://{Request.Host}/{Url.Action(nameof(this.GetYoutubeAuthenticationToken)).TrimStart('/')}";
// Now, let's ask Youtube for our OAuth token that will let us do awesome things for the user
var scopes = new[] { YouTubeService.Scope.YoutubeForceSsl };
var googleAuthorizationCodeFlow = this.GetYoutubeAuthorizationCodeFlow(scopes);
var token = await googleAuthorizationCodeFlow.ExchangeCodeForTokenAsync(userId, code, redirectUrl, CancellationToken.None);
// Now, you need to store this token in rlation to your user. So, however you save your user data, just make sure you
// save the token for your user. This is the token you'll use to build up the UserCredentials needed to act on behalf
// of the user.
var tokenJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(token);
await this.userService.SaveUserToken(userId, tokenJson);
// Now that we've got access to the user's YouTube account, let's get back
// to our application :)
return RedirectToAction(nameof(this.Index));
}
}
The View
#using YourApplication.Controllers
#model YourApplication.Models.ExampleModel
<div>
#if(Model.UserHasYoutubeToken)
{
<p>YAY! We have access to your YouTube account!</p>
}
else
{
<button id="addYoutube">Add YouTube</button>
}
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var addYoutubeUrl = '#Url.Action(nameof(ExampleController.GetAuthorizationUrl))';
// When the user clicks the 'Add YouTube' button, we'll call the server
// to get the Authorization URL Google built for us, then redirect the
// user to it.
$('#addYoutube').click(function () {
$.post(addYoutubeUrl, function (result) {
if (result) {
window.location.href = result;
}
});
});
});
</script>

As referred here, you need to specify a fix port for the ASP.NET development server like How to fix a port number in asp.NET development server and add this url with the fix port to the allowed urls. Also as stated in this thread, when your browser redirects the user to Google's oAuth page, you should be passing as a parameter the redirect URI you want Google's server to return to with the token response.

I noticed that there is easy non-programmatic way around.
If you have typical monotlith application built in typical MS convention(so not compatible with 12factor and typical DDD) there is an option to tell your Proxy WWW server to rewrite all requests from HTTP to HTTPS so even if you have set up Web App on http://localhost:5000 and then added in Google API url like: http://your.domain.net/sigin-google, it will work perfectly and it is not that bas because it is much safer to set up main WWW to rewrite all to HTTPS.
It is not very good practice I guess however it makes sense and does the job.

I've struggled with this issue for hours in a .net Core application. What finally fixed it for me was, in the Google developers console, to create and use a credential for "Desktop app" instead of a "Web application".

Yeah!! Using credentials of desktop app instead of web app worked for me fine. It took me more than 2 days to figure out this problem. The main problem is that google auth library dose not adding or supporting http://localhost:8000 as redirect uri for web app creds but credentials of desktop app fixed that issue. Cause its supporting http://___ connection instead of https: connection for redirect uri

Using OAuth2 eBay authentication with .NET SDK

I have been searching throughout the internet for a solution to use OAuth2 user token with eBay's .NET SDK and could find ANY SINGLE solution. The code I have is like following:
var ctx = new ApiContext();
ctx.Version = "897";
ctx.ApiCredential.ApiAccount.Application = "//something here";
ctx.ApiCredential.ApiAccount.Developer = "//something here";
ctx.ApiCredential.ApiAccount.Certificate = "//something here";
ctx.ApiCredential.eBayToken = "v^1.1... // this is OAuth2 token";
var getUser = new GetUserCall();
getUser.OutputSelector = new string[] { "UserID","Site" };
getUser.GetUser();
What I find really irritating is the fact that there is a possibility to use the new OAuth2 token with trading API, and I know this for a fact, because if you add an HTTP header to any Trading API call like:
X-EBAY-API-IAF-TOKEN:q2eq2eq2eq2q2eq2e
It will work, but I haven't found anywhere in the documentation to pass the IAF-TOKEN (OAuth2) token via .NET SDK calls...
Has anyone else been trying this? Is there nay way to pass the OAuth2 token via .NET SDK and then fetch the results ?
Because if I try to pass the OAuth2 token like this:
ctx.ApiCredential.eBayToken = "v^1.1... // this is OAuth2 token";
In place where the traditional Auth'n'Auth token went, I'm getting the following error:
validation of the authentication token in api request failed.
Can someone help me out please ?!

OneDrive API with C#, get authentication code programmatic

I have to write an application, no matter what language (c#, Java, shell, python ...) that can connect to OneDrive and then uploads file.
Following the OneDrive API I found that i need in one step to go to the browser (manually and to post a url that combines client_id and client_security to get an authentication code so i can connect my client with it to get the access token. (oAuth2 protocol)
I need to get the access_token pragmatically, i don't need any manual step to be involved.
I tried in c# to use the WebBrowser component to navigate to the url and to get the access token, I found that the browser stays in the same url and not getting the final url that includes the auth_code!
My code looks like:
// Initialize a new Client (without an Access/Refresh tokens
var client = new Client(options);
// Get the OAuth Request Url
var authRequestUrl = client.GetAuthorizationRequestUrl(new[] { Scope.Basic, Scope.Signin, Scope.SkyDrive, Scope.SkyDriveUpdate });
// TODO: Navigate to authRequestUrl using the browser, and retrieve the Authorization Code from the response
WebBrowser wb = new WebBrowser();
wb.AllowNavigation = true;
wb.ScrollBarsEnabled = false;
wb.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
wb.Navigate(authRequestUrl);
Console.WriteLine(wb.Version);
while (wb.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
{
Application.DoEvents();
}
wb.Document.InvokeScript("evt_Login_onload(event)");
Uri myUrl = wb.Url;
Anyone can help with fixing this, or maybe suggest other ideas please?
Thanks in Advance!

It looks like you're creating a Windows desktop app using C#. There's actually an example at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh826529.aspx for using the WebBrowser class to get the authorization code, then the token, then make an API. In short, you'll first need to send a request to the following URL with your client_id and scopes.
https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&scope=YOUR_SCOPE_STRING&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf
In the response, you'll get the authorization code which you'll need to use to send another request to with your client_id, client_secret, authorization code like the following.
https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET&redirect_uri=https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf&code=AUTHORIZATION_CODE&grant_type=authorization_code
When you finally receive the access token, you can make requests to the API using your access token similar to the following.
"https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN". The "me" can be changed to any other folder or directory.
I hope that helps.

dont u think the scope u provided are wrong, they should be wl.basic, wl.signin, and if ur using new onedrive api then it should be onedrive.readonly or onedrive.readwrite
if ur using liveconnect api for the purpose of using onedrive then scope should be wl.skydrive or wl.contacts_skydrive or wl.skydrive_update
depending upon ur uses (refer https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243646.aspx)
and can u more elaborate how ur trying to get the access_token, from above it is quite confusing to me

Have you solved you issue?
Have you tried to use the LiveSDK to authenticate?
Have a look at my question there, it might help you :
Onedrive API vs LiveSDK
I have used the following code, after installing both the LiveSDK and the OneDrive SDK, and this does not require any login after the first authorization. However it "may" have to be a RT app (windows store or windows phone store)
var authClient = new LiveAuthClient();
var authResult = await authClient.LoginAsync(new string[] {
"wl.signin", "onedrive.readwrite", "onedrive.appfolder"});
if (authResult.Session == null)
throw new InvalidOperationException("You need to sign in and give consent to the app.");
var Connection = new ODConnection("https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0",
new MicrosoftAccountAuthenticationInfo() { TokenType = "Bearer",
AccessToken = odArgs.Session.AccessToken });

Toan-Nguyen's answer almost helps me. On the step 2 (when I should send a request with authorization code) I get the response with error "Public clients can't send client secret". This answer said it's neccessary to remove the attribute client_secret from url.

Linq-to-Twitter always error 401 Unauthorized

I am using LinqToTwitter in my C# desktop application. Trying to send tweets and tweets with image to Twitter using OAuth credentials. Initially I am using these required attributes of my own Twitter application:
var auth = new SingleUserAuthorizer
{
Credentials = new SingleUserInMemoryCredentials
{
ConsumerKey = "key",
ConsumerSecret = "secret",
TwitterAccessToken = "token",
TwitterAccessTokenSecret = "tokensecret"
}
};
var context = new TwitterContext(auth);
context.UpdateStatus("Hello World");
NOTE: I have double checked that I am using correct values for above keys and tokens, but its always erroring 401 Unauthorized.
NOTE: Also I have checked this link for any mistake: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=LINQ%20to%20Twitter%20FAQ&referringTitle=Documentation
Any help to resolve this ?

Your code seems to be fine.
The FAQ, which you reference, is the best resource right now.
What type of application are you building, e.g. ASP.NET, Windows Phone, etc.?
You might also try downloading the source code and checking to see if the LinqToTwitterDemos project will work for you.