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New to API's, getting 401 unauthorised for provided key
posted by mpjonesSTAFFMOD on september 6, 2016 at 2:16 PM
Hi,
As the title says, i'm very new to API's and cant figure out why i'm getting 401 unauthorised.
I am using the "example" api url with my key.
Anyone got any pointers for the noob?
thanks in advance
Mark
//key replaced with xxxxxx
EDIT: found this info: {"status_code":7,"status_message":"Invalid API key: You must be granted a valid key."}
Request URL:https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550?api_key=XXXX/superman?callback=jQuery112005372365273098454_1473185390313&_=1473185390314
Request Method:GET
Status Code:401 Unauthorized
Remote Address:174.129.0.192:443
Response Headers
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Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:86
Content-Type:application/json;charset=utf-8
Date:Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:11:27 GMT
Server:openresty
Status:401 Unauthorized
X-RateLimit-Limit:40
X-RateLimit-Remaining:39
X-RateLimit-Reset:1473185497
Request Headers
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Accept:*/*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch, br
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6
Connection:keep-alive
Cookie:_gat=1; _ga=GA1.2.1221911226.1473169476
Host:api.themoviedb.org
Referer:https://markj78.github.io/covered/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Query String Parameters
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api_key:XXXXsuperman?callback=jQuery112005372365273098454_1473185390313
_:1473185390314
Travis Bell je odgovoril
dne september 6, 2016 ob 3:41 PM
Hi mpjones,
That's not a valid HTTP request. You have to construct your path first, then append your query parameters. I think you're looking for movie search, so in that case the request you're looking for is:
Hope that helps.
mpjones je odgovoril
dne september 7, 2016 ob 3:14 AM
Hi Travis,
Yes, looking for movies. It did help thankyou, i am recieving the file.
Many thanks
Mark