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Http Result 401 with Movie Search
posted by scalessSTAFFMOD on ოქტომბერი 5, 2013 at 9:31 PM
Hello,
I am trying to work my way through a tutorial that executes movie searches with the API, and I keep getting 401 results, so I am unable to proceed any further. My URL that I am sending with my http request is: http://api.themoviedb.org/3/Movie.search/en/xml/[API KEY]/gladiator
Is there something I am doing wrong in the formatting of the URL? I have a valid API Key.
Thanks, Shaun
Reply by Travis Bell
on ოქტომბერი 6, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Hi Shaun,
A few things. First, you're not making a valid APi request. The movie search URL is:
Second, a 401 error would be caused from not sending a valid
Acceptheader. If you take a look at our documentation and depending what language you are programming in, there's working examples for most popular ones. A working cURL request for example, looks like so:Cheers.
Reply by Brent
on ნოემბერი 21, 2015 at 10:54 PM
I was a bit confused by the documentation regarding constructing a request URL. There's info on the endpoints, but not on how they fit into the URL itself. Just an idea for improvement going forward.