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401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: ...

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I’m trying to retrieve a dataset from a Google Collab notebook, unsuccessfully so far, although I did apply all instructions.

import cdsapi

uploaded = files.upload() #to upload the .cdsapirc
!cp .cdsapirc ../root/

c = cdsapi.Client()

c.retrieve(
    'insitu-glaciers-elevation-mass',
    {
        'product_type': [
            'elevation_change', 'mass_balance',
        ],
        'file_version': '20181103',
        'variable': 'all',
        'format': 'zip',
    },
    'download.zip')

insitu_glaciers_elevation_mass = pd.read_csv('download.zip', compression='zip')

This yields the following error:

2020-04-15 13:18:23,712 INFO Welcome to the CDS
2020-04-15 13:18:23,713 INFO Sending request to https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/resources/insitu-glaciers-elevation-mass
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTTPError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cdsapi/api.py in _api(self, url, request, method)
    388         try:
--> 389             result.raise_for_status()
    390             reply = result.json()

3 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/models.py in raise_for_status(self)
    939         if http_error_msg:
--> 940             raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
    941 

HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/resources/insitu-glaciers-elevation-mass

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Exception                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-ceb78a244bb3> in <module>()
     16         'format': 'zip',
     17     },
---> 18     'download.zip')
     19 
     20 insitu_glaciers_elevation_mass = pd.read_csv('download.zip', compression='zip')

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cdsapi/api.py in retrieve(self, name, request, target)
    315 
    316     def retrieve(self, name, request, target=None):
--> 317         result = self._api('%s/resources/%s' % (self.url, name), request, 'POST')
    318         if target is not None:
    319             result.download(target)

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cdsapi/api.py in _api(self, url, request, method)
    408                                  "of '%s' at %s" % (t['title'], t['url']))
    409                     error = '. '.join(e)
--> 410                 raise Exception(error)
    411             else:
    412                 raise

Exception: <html>
<head><title>401 Authorization Required</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>401 Authorization Required</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.16.1</center>
</body>
</html>

I did first accept the terms & conditions: Imgur

What am I missing?

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patel-zeelcommented, Aug 6, 2020

Before I was having the following settings in my $HOME/.cdsapirc url: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2 key: {xxxxx}:{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}

After getting this error I changed to the following (Removal of curly brackets) and error got resolved. url: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2 key: xxxxx:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

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ZSSAPRcommented, May 13, 2022

try to delete the blank after the colon between your UID and API key

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