API activity request with refresh capability for access token

Question

I am unable to retrieve my activities via my React application, despite using this how-to site for reference and largely copying the code over: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/strava-api-react-app-326e63527e2c. Is this not a valid request link:

https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/activities?access_token=<access_token_here>? Of course, that <access_token_here> part is where my current access token would be, which gets refreshed with the way I've set up my React App.js file.

For extra context, I am receiving a 401 request error upon the request being made in React:

The underlying error appears to be the following:

Not sure how to interpret this result.

I'd appreciate any help/insight into this for those of you who are aware of a fix/solution and/or have gone through this problem already.

reesmonty · Accepted Answer

It turned out I just didn't have the right refresh token. Once I had that, everything worked as expected and I was able to pull in data to my React app.

Bready · Answer

The access token does not go in the URL of the GET request, it goes in the 'Authorization' HTTP header of the request.Read more here

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