diff --git a/src/app.rs b/src/app.rs
index a55c297..d5c86f1 100644
--- a/src/app.rs
+++ b/src/app.rs
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ impl State {
         let task_state = Arc::clone(&state);
         self::task::stream_status::start_task(task_state).await;
 
+        // start token refresh task
+        let task_state = Arc::clone(&state);
+        self::task::tokens::start_task(task_state).await;
+
         println!("initialised");
 
         Ok(state)
diff --git a/src/app/task/mod.rs b/src/app/task/mod.rs
index 8d62216..693a3ff 100644
--- a/src/app/task/mod.rs
+++ b/src/app/task/mod.rs
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 pub mod stream_status;
+pub mod tokens;
diff --git a/src/app/task/tokens.rs b/src/app/task/tokens.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..581486f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/task/tokens.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+use chrono::Duration;
+use crate::app::State;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+pub async fn start_task(state: Arc<State>) {
+    tokio::task::spawn(async move {
+        loop {
+            if let Err(e) = state.twitch.bot_token().await {
+                eprintln!("could not get bot token: {:?}", e);
+            }
+
+            if let Err(e) = state.twitch.user_token().await {
+                eprintln!("could not get user token: {:?}", e);
+            }
+
+            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::minutes(15).to_std().unwrap()).await;
+        }
+    });
+}