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foooius
foooius

Reputation: 1

Where to use the API authorisation key in this API?

I am working with the following api:

https://www.football-data.org/documentation/api

I have gotten myself an api key and I tried to make the example request:

https://api.football-data.org/v2/teams/86/matches?status=SCHEDULED

of course I get the error

{"message":"The resource you are looking for is restricted. Please pass a valid API token and check your subscription for permission.","errorCode":403}

So the question is, is how do I give the website my api key to allow me to make these requests?

Looking at the python snippet they create a dictionary with the the api key as a value and pass that to the request. How can I make this in my browser?

I tried 

https://api.football-data.org/v2/teams/86/matches?status=SCHEDULED&%22X-Auth-Token%22=%22MYAPIKEY%22

and it did not work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1156

Answers (3)

Yaro
Yaro

Reputation: 11

If you're using postman like @Jakob Löhnertz suggested.

  1. You want to first enter the api

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  1. Then go over to the Headers tab, put in "X-Auth-Token" as your Key and your unique API token as your value. Hit send and you should be all good.

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Finally, be sure to go through here to see the list of available competitions for a free account.

Upvotes: 0

Pleastry
Pleastry

Reputation: 434

You might have figured it out by now, but I am dropping this for anyone else looking on how to do it in Python:

import requests
from pprint import pprint


token = "" # Write the api key emailed to you here

headers = {
    'X-Auth-Token': token,
}

r = requests.get('http://api.football-data.org/v2/competitions/EC/teams', headers=headers).json()

pprint(r, indent=2, depth=1, compact=True)

Upvotes: 0

Jakob Löhnertz
Jakob Löhnertz

Reputation: 11

You are passing your API key as a query parameter, which is not in line with the API specification. The API needs the key as an HTTP header. You cannot easily do that in a web browser. I'd suggest getting something like Postman or to do it on the command-line:

curl -i -H "X-Auth-Token: MYAPIKEY" "https://api.football-data.org/v2/teams/86/matches?status=SCHEDULED"

Upvotes: 1

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