private async Task <string> RefreshAccessToken() { if (!configHandler.HasYoutubeRefreshToken) { return(""); } string refreshToken = configHandler.Config.YoutubeRefreshToken; string tokenRequestUrl = $"{tokenEndpoint}?refresh_token={refreshToken}&client_id={clientId}&client_secret={clientSecret}&grant_type=refresh_token"; HttpWebRequest tokenRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(tokenRequestUrl); tokenRequest.Method = "POST"; tokenRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; tokenRequest.Accept = "Accept=text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"; byte[] byteVersion = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(tokenRequestUrl); tokenRequest.ContentLength = byteVersion.Length; using (System.IO.Stream stream = tokenRequest.GetRequestStream()) { await stream.WriteAsync(byteVersion, 0, byteVersion.Length); } WebResponse tokenResponse = await tokenRequest.GetResponseAsync(); using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(tokenResponse.GetResponseStream())) { string responseText = await reader.ReadToEndAsync(); Dictionary <string, string> tokenEndpointDecoded = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <Dictionary <string, string> >(responseText); string accessToken = tokenEndpointDecoded["access_token"]; configHandler.SetYoutubeAccessToken(accessToken); return(accessToken); } }