I'm trying to get the weather data for London in JSON but I am getting HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
. How do I get the API working?
import urllib2
url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?q=London&cnt=10&mode=json&units=metric"
response = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
The docs open by telling you that you need to register for an API key first.
To access the API you need to sign up for an API key
Since your url doesn't contain a key, the site tells you you're not authorized. Follow the instructions to get a key, then add it to the query parameters.
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?APPID=12345&q=...
Error: Invalid API key. Please see http://openweathermap.org/faq#error401 for more info
API calls responds with 401 error: You can get the error 401 in the following cases:
here are some steps to find problem.
some API services provide key information in dashboard whether its activated, expired etc. openWeatherMap don't.
to verify whether your key is working 'MAKE API CALL FROM BROWSER'
api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=peshawar&appid=API_key
replace API_key with your own key, if you get data successfully then your key is activated otherwise wait for few hours to get key activated.
.env is file which is used to hide credentials such as API_KEY in server side code. make sure your .env file variables are using correct syntax which is NAME=VALUE
API_KEY=djgkv43439d90bkckcs
no semicolon, quotes etc
check request url where API call will be made , make sure
to know if you dotenv package is parsing API key correctly use the following code
const result = dotenv.config()
if (result.error) {
throw result.error
}
console.log(result.parsed)
this code checks if .env file variables are being parsed, it will print API_KEY value if its been parsed otherwise will print error which occur while parsing.
Hopefully it helps :)
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