How to get around a 401 unauthorized error?

Question

I'd like to output some values from this site. With the browser inspector I located the URL to the JSON that has that information that I want. Once with the JSON, I can extract the values just fine.

The issue is that the URL to the JSON only works for a limited amount of time. If I try to access it later (via browser or via script's UrlFetch), I get a:

{
"status": 401,
"response": "unauthorized"
}

Since I would like to check on the target JSON periodically, I would like to find a way to authorize the request. Any ideas?

Thanks!

PS: This is what I've tried so far (google apps script):

function getUserAndJSON(){
  var url = 'https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/api/cards?cardType=100&conditionType%5B%5D=1&conditionType%5B%5D=2&limit=24&locations=%5B%5B1669,4,%22Lauttasaari,%20Helsinki%22%5D,%5B14714,5,%2200340,%20Helsinki%22%5D%5D&lotOwnershipType%5B%5D=1&offset=0&price%5Bmax%5D=600000&price%5Bmin%5D=150000&roomCount%5B%5D=3&size%5Bmin%5D=35&sortBy=published_sort_desc';

  var opt = {
    "method": "GET", 
    "muteHttpExceptions": true,
    "escaping":false,
    "headers":JSON.parse(user)
  }
  var str = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url,opt).getContentText();
  Logger.log(str); //error 401
}

Answer 1

One solution to this problem is to simply use the option 'copy as... > fetch' within the browser inspector (in my case Opera), which gives out the following (somewhat different headers than the ones sent by the browser):

fetch("https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/api/cards?cardType=100&conditionType%5B%5D=1&conditionType%5B%5D=2&limit=24&locations=%5B%5B1669,4,%22Lauttasaari,+Helsinki%22%5D,%5B14714,5,%2200340,+Helsinki%22%5D%5D&lotOwnershipType%5B%5D=1&offset=0&price%5Bmax%5D=600000&price%5Bmin%5D=150000&roomCount%5B%5D=3&size%5Bmin%5D=35&sortBy=published_sort_desc", {"credentials":"omit","headers":{"accept":"application/json","ota-cuid":"fd2a3a03d52a2721f9a9aa844ddf7eef2ac66ed6","ota-loaded":"1586685082","ota-token":"ab7e9f830a7dff3a9b01fbdcbc899ed7bfa659a4793103f1943e83ef5f938b16","sec-fetch-dest":"empty"},"referrer":"https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/myytavat-asunnot?conditionType%5B%5D=1&conditionType%5B%5D=2&locations=%5B%5B1669,4,%22Lauttasaari,%20Helsinki%22%5D,%5B14714,5,%2200340,%20Helsinki%22%5D%5D&lotOwnershipType%5B%5D=1&price%5Bmax%5D=600000&price%5Bmin%5D=150000&size%5Bmin%5D=35&roomCount%5B%5D=3&cardType=100","referrerPolicy":"no-referrer-when-downgrade","body":null,"method":"GET","mode":"cors"});

Which I used in GAS in the following way:

function testGetJSON(){
 var str = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/api/cards?cardType=100&conditionType%5B%5D=1&conditionType%5B%5D=2&limit=24&locations=%5B%5B1669,4,%22Lauttasaari,+Helsinki%22%5D,%5B14714,5,%2200340,+Helsinki%22%5D%5D&lotOwnershipType%5B%5D=1&offset=0&price%5Bmax%5D=600000&price%5Bmin%5D=150000&roomCount%5B%5D=3&size%5Bmin%5D=35&sortBy=published_sort_desc",
 {"credentials":"omit",
"headers":{"accept":"application/json","ota-cuid":"fd2a3a03d52a2721f9a9aa844ddf7eef2ac66ed6","ota-loaded":"1586685082","ota-token":"ab7e9f830a7dff3a9b01fbdcbc899ed7bfa659a4793103f1943e83ef5f938b16","sec-fetch-dest":"empty"},"referrer":"https://asunnot.oikotie.fi/myytavat-asunnot?conditionType%5B%5D=1&conditionType%5B%5D=2&locations=%5B%5B1669,4,%22Lauttasaari,%20Helsinki%22%5D,%5B14714,5,%2200340,%20Helsinki%22%5D%5D&lotOwnershipType%5B%5D=1&price%5Bmax%5D=600000&price%5Bmin%5D=150000&size%5Bmin%5D=35&roomCount%5B%5D=3&cardType=100","referrerPolicy":"no-referrer-when-downgrade","body":null,"method":"GET","mode":"cors"});
  Logger.log(str.getContentText());
}

Which works perfectly.

Thank you all for your tips and suggestions!