Cannot recreate API call with the download tool.

[cgoodman3]

I am trying to recreate an API request using the download tool, but I am failing to get the expected result back.  The API I am trying to connect to is: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/api-documentation

Within the documentation it states that you need the API key in an Authorization header and also an Accept header with the value application/json. I've been able to successfully recreate this in Postman and the python script generated is as follows:

import requests

url = "https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/api/v1/datasets/history/ccod/CCOD_FULL_2022_06.zip"

payload={}
headers = {
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': '[MY API KEY ENTERED HERE]'
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

However when trying to replicate this in the download tool I am encountering an error. This is my set up:

N.B. I have my actual API key entered in my workflow.

The response back is a html page with a bad request message. Is there anything else that needs to be configured?

Thanks

[PhilipMannering · Accepted solution]

Hey Chris.

Try adding another Header, Name = `user-agent` and Value = `Mozilla Firefox`.

[cgoodman3]

Thanks @PhilipMannering adding in the extra User-Agent did the trick.

[MarqueeCrew]

@PhilipMannering ,

How did you figure that out? 

I got curl to work with:

RUN Command

Command:  curl.exe

Arguments:  --header "Authorization: 99999999-9999-9999-9999-999999999999" https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/api/v1/datasets/ccod -o c:\users\markf\Downloads\output.txt

Input... pick a dummy dataset

Cheers,

Mark

[PhilipMannering]

@MarqueeCrew Lucky guess.

[PhilipMannering]

... nah it's something I've done a few times to get APIs to work.