I am having trouble connecting to the API at https://developer.vasttrafik.se/portal/. I would like to get the public transport stops (https://developer.vasttrafik.se/portal/#/api/Geography/v1/admin), but I am stuck, I keep getting "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" from the HTTPCaller. I have tried using "Authorization" as suggested at https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00008WImfCSAT/using-fme-to-call-power-bi-via-the-api-to-refresh-data-sets-dynamically-i-am-stuck-with-the-authentication-piece-for-the-bearer-token, but no success. Any suggestions on what I might be missing?
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The API has now been updated to https://api.vasttrafik.se/geo/v2/StopPoints and I no longer get an error message. However, the _response_body I get is about 10 MB and looks like: 7B2273746F70506F696E7473223A5B7B22676964223A2239303232303134303031303034303031222C2273746F704172656... . I was more hoping for the JSON respons that Postman produces. Any suggestions?
Tried with FME 2021.2.2.0.
Hi @magnus , try setting the Response Body Encoding parameter explicitly to appropriate character encoding, maybe UTF-8.
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Have you been able to connect to the API using Postman?
This is the way I work through these projects:
- Make it work in Postman. (Better geared to get this working.)
- Transfer the steps to FME.
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Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, I am able to get the desired response using Postman. In Postman, I used the address http://api.vasttrafik.se/geo/v1/StopPoints and Authorization - Type: Bearer Token. I guess I´m not configuring this correctly in FME.
+64Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, I am able to get the desired response using Postman. In Postman, I used the address http://api.vasttrafik.se/geo/v1/StopPoints and Authorization - Type: Bearer Token. I guess I´m not configuring this correctly in FME.
If I try some of these samples (API-konsol) and monitor DevTools (F12) I see:
I would try to do:
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I have tried Authorization and using the token, but I still get "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden".
+64Is your Content Type set to JSON (application/json)?
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I added Content-Type = application/json and still get "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden".
+64Hm, swedish is not my first language so it is difficult to reproduce, but I think I have a valid login now.
The curl command is:
curl -k -d "grant_type=client_credentials" -H "Authorization: Basic <token>" https://api.vasttrafik.se:443/tokenSo I think you need 2 httpcallers:
- get a temp token from https://api.vasttrafik.se:443/token using the key you got for the app you added.
- get the data using the temp token you got in the first step.
+64@magnus I can reproduce you issue. I can get a token but then I get a forbidden on the datasets as well. Not sure why but or we are making the same mistake, or it does not work as documented.
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The API has now been updated to https://api.vasttrafik.se/geo/v2/StopPoints and I no longer get an error message. However, the _response_body I get is about 10 MB and looks like: 7B2273746F70506F696E7473223A5B7B22676964223A2239303232303134303031303034303031222C2273746F704172656... . I was more hoping for the JSON respons that Postman produces. Any suggestions?
Tried with FME 2021.2.2.0.
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The API has now been updated to https://api.vasttrafik.se/geo/v2/StopPoints and I no longer get an error message. However, the _response_body I get is about 10 MB and looks like: 7B2273746F70506F696E7473223A5B7B22676964223A2239303232303134303031303034303031222C2273746F704172656... . I was more hoping for the JSON respons that Postman produces. Any suggestions?
Tried with FME 2021.2.2.0.
Hi @magnus , try setting the Response Body Encoding parameter explicitly to appropriate character encoding, maybe UTF-8.