Generating OAuth Access Tokens through Ajax

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EDIT: Solved

Needed to set basic authorization:

    beforeSend: function(xhr) {
        xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic" + bota("particle:particle"));
    },

I’m trying to generate an access token via Ajax. When I use curl from a terminal, it works fine:

curl https://api.particle.io/oauth/token -u partice:particle -d grant_type=password -d username=test@user.com -d password=testpassword -d expires_in=0

When I try using an Ajax call to do it, like so:

      $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "https://api.particle.io/oauth/token",
    data: {
      username: "test@user.com",
      password: "testpassword",
      expires_in: 0,
      grant_type: "password"
    },
    complete: function(jqXHR, textStatus) {
      console.log("jqXHR", jqXHR);
      console.log("textStatus", textStatus);
    }
  });

I get an error 400:

{ "error": "invalid_client", "error_description": "Invalid or missing client_id parameter" }

Am I missing a header in AJAX that curl puts in? I’ve tried doing a verbose curl and it doesn’t appear that any client_id is set. Do I simply need to have an organization with an OAuth client ID included? If so, why doesn’t curl need one?

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