🔒 401 - A request must contain the Authorization header. Soundcloud

[tawny raptor]

Hey there!
Recently got soundcloud api key and when i try to get tracks by search query i get error 401 - A request must contain the Authorization header.
There is my code

import requests

CLIENT_ID = "id"  

url = 'https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/?client_id='+CLIENT_ID+'&q=Cahalot'

print(requests.get(url).content)

Can you help me find problem that result this?

[coarse lake]

@tawny raptor

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[tawny raptor]

Error stack

{
  "code": 401,
  "message": "A request must contain the Authorization header. For details please refer to https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/security-updates-api.",
  "link": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/explorer/open-api",
  "status": "401 - Unauthorized",
  "errors": [
    {
      "error_message": "A request must contain the Authorization header. For details please refer to https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/security-updates-api."
    }
  ],
  "error": null
}

[tawny raptor]

Up btw

[ember gazelle]

Uh, the error is very clear for someone who knows requests. You're not even trying to add any header.

Do you know how to add headers? You can pass them as dict in the request.get call as keyword argument headers=

As the link in the error says https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/security-updates-api
The header should be just "Authorization" with content being "OAuth <your token here>"

[tawny raptor]

But where i can get OAuth token if i don't get it in soundcloud? Just use client id?

[tawny raptor]

My request knowledge is just use post and get like for message in telegram bot

[tawny raptor]

I get a OAuth token but error the sdame

[ember gazelle]

Please consult the docs, they should say everything about how to do it.

[tawny raptor]

import requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'OAuth token
',
}

params = {
    'limit': '1',
}

response = requests.get('https://api.soundcloud.com/me/tracks', params=params, headers=headers)

print(response.content

Stack

b'{"code":401,"message":"","link":"https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/explorer/open-api","status":"401 - Unauthorized","errors":[],"error":null}'

[ember gazelle]

It can't be the same as your request was missing the header altogether and now you claim you added it but something is wrong - so it can't be the same

[tawny raptor]

It just print 'Unauthorized' and that's all

[ember gazelle]

I saw you edit/delete the message with token, please re-generate your token because it's now in server logs and it's dangerous to reuse it

[ember gazelle]

It doesn't. You literally printed the body.
"Unauthorized" is just what 401 means. The details are what is important here

[tawny raptor]

But he don't print them, is he?

[tawny raptor]

He generate only one token in 3600 seconds

[ember gazelle]

Who is "he"? This doesn't make any sense

[ember gazelle]

Again, who "he"?

Are you trying to log in every time and get new token, instead of generating token and reusing it? Because 1h limit sounds like some login limit, not "i want to revoke my token because I posted it publicly" interface

[tawny raptor]

api

[tawny raptor]

I try to use access_token and refreshing_token and it still not authorize me

[ember gazelle]

Please read what each token does and don't just randomly throw them into requests

[tawny raptor]

Sorry about that. I don't speak english well

[ember gazelle]

And there should be a way to log out the session to invalidate the previous token. Don't use refresh token when not needed

[tawny raptor]

Okay
I can't use any of tokens in my code because my tokens is not authorizing...

[novel heath]

it's common for ESL speakers, especially of many European languages, to use "he" or "she" where native English speakers would use "it", because those languages often gender all nouns (including for inanimate objects)

[coarse lake]

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