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Dec 29, 2022 03:15 AM
Hello, anyone availeble to help with basic authentication for vidaxl api. I am trying to get products data but really struggling with the authentication
Dec 29, 2022 06:34 PM
Authentication issues are some of the hardest issues to troubleshoot. Each API provider can customize how it does authentication. Plus, the error messages tend to have very limited information since you are not able to authenticate as an approved user.
Your best bet is to look at the documentation for the API provider and/or contact their support.
On the other hand, if they indeed use basic authentication, you can try changing this line
let authKey = authUser + authPass
to
let authKey = authUser + ":" + authPass
When writing code, even small character differences can matter.
Dec 30, 2022 08:54 AM
Thanks @kuovonne I figured it out. I had the username and password so I used postman to get the data and then I used the code generator feature postman to generate the script for the authentication. Now I have been able to used it to generate the data in airtable