Title: Missing Auth Token parameter
Last modified: August 27, 2024

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# Missing Auth Token parameter

 *  [tom coady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomcoady/)
 * (@tomcoady)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-auth-token-parameter/)
 * **Oops! There’s no <q>oauth_token</q> parameter.**
 * An external application has requested your login credentials and permission to
   perform certain actions on your behalf, but has failed to include all the required
   data. 
 * You don’t really need to know what this means, except that you can’t use the 
   application until this problem is fixed. (It’s a third-party problem, not a Flickr
   problem.)
 * There are lots of applications using the Flickr API. If you are curious about
   this, visit the [Flickr Services](https://www.flickr.com/services) page to see
   more examples of cool stuff. Otherwise, you might like to head to your [home page](https://www.flickr.com/)…
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmissing-auth-token-parameter%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-auth-token-parameter/#post-17978210)
 * I am guessing what you have provided is an error message when you are trying 
   to authenticate through the Authentication page of Photonic.
 * Typically, when you get this sort of an error, it is due to one of a couple of
   reasons:
    - You could have a typo in your API key or API secret – make sure that the fields
      don’t have any leading or trailing spaces, and don’t have any hidden/bad characters.
      One way to verify this information is to click on the fields for the API Key
      and A{I Secret, and do a “Select All” for that field, paste it into a text
      editor, and on the text editor, set it to display hidden characters.
    - Some site configuration or a security plugin on your website stripping out
      security-related parameters – the `oauth_token` is a security parameter, which
      occasionally gets stripped out in this manner.
 * Another basic thing to check or verify is, do you have private photos that you
   are trying to display? If no, then you don’t even require authentication.

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 * Last reply from: [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-auth-token-parameter/#post-17978210)
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