[SOLVED] "Authentication credentials were not provided" - but they were! (Python)

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Hi,

I’m using Python Requests to submit readings for multiple variables at once. The headers of the request object are being created correctly:

{'Content-Length': '478', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': 'application/json; indent=4', 'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.5.1 CPython/2.7.3 Linux/3.12.35+', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'X-Auth-Token': 'abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123abc', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

But the response is that “Authentication credentials were not provided.” The “X-Auth-Token” header is clearly there, so I’d be grateful if anyone has any suggestions for what I’m doing wrong!

Many thanks,
Haydn

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Hi Haydn, this is a example using python requests library:

import requests
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Auth-Token': 'asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf'}
requests.get("http://things.ubidots.com/api/v1.6/datasources/", headers=headers)

Then you will have a 200 status code response from the server.

Maybe if you send some code we can find the error.

Regards,
Gustavo.

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Hi Gustavo,

Thanks for the quick response. Here is the code:

headers = {'Accept': 'application/json; indent=4', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Auth-Token': self.APIKey}
url = "http://things.ubidots.com/api/v1.6/collections/values"
try:
    req = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

‘payload’ is defined and filled elsewhere, but here’s what it looks like once constructed:

[{"variable": "54e8feba762542435f3b65c0", "value": 21.4}, {"variable": "54e8fed17625423c95eccbc7", "value": 1005.0866895310136}, {"variable": "54e8fee676254240d5d984e5", "value": null}, {"variable": "54e8ff037625424093180fbd", "value": null}, {"variable": "54e8ff46762542424dfed256", "value": 31448.275862068964}, {"variable": "54e8ff5e7625423e6921c5eb", "value": 34868.42105263158}, {"variable": "54e8ff737625424208809357", "value": 203560.83086053416}]

Regards,
Haydn

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Hi @haydnw, an observation just in case: make sure you are using a token in your request and not an API Key.
Best,
Agustín

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Oh no, a schoolboy error! :slight_smile: Thanks very much, working perfectly now. Code is available in the outputs directory of my fork of the AirPi project, if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/haydnw/AirPi

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@haydnw, thanks for including Ubidots in your AirPi version. We’ll give it a try with our AirPi module.