Unknown API key when trying to use the HTTP API directly

Unibrew-Posmo

April 03, 2017 21:54

I am trying to create an archive from node.js, and I need to pass the allow_missing parameter, because I might have invalid public ids in the list.

I have been told that this has not been implemented in the node.js package, and therefore I am attempting to call the endpoint directly.

I am trying to package 1000 (the limit) files into a zip, and so I cannot use a GET request, but need to use a POST request. I have been told previously, that this is possible.

In the documentation it states that I should do basic auth with my api key and api secret in order to authenticate. I have done this, encoded these strings and has made an Authorization header. However, I keep getting the response "unknown API key". I have tried creating the Authorization key with Postman, so I am fairly confident that it is the correct key.

My questions are: 

1) How should I provide the credentials for this to work

2) I am not sure how to provide the parameters (allow_missing, public_ids, etc). Can I use e.g. JSON as a HTTP body, or must I provide them in another way?

 

Thanks in advance!

Joachim

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  Maor Gariv

  April 04, 2017 09:20

  Hi Joachim,

  In order to send the request directly to the endpoint, you should create a signature, rather than passing an authorisation header (basic auth is for the Admin API).
  So, you can do something like this -

   

  curl -g -X POST 'https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/<cloud_name>/<resource_type>/generate_archive?public_ids[]=<public_id>&public_ids[]=<public_id>&allow_missing=1&api_key=<api_key>&signature=<signature>&timestamp=<ts>'

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  Alex Rosenthal

  June 25, 2018 18:56

  What's the <signature> ?

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  Aditi Madan

  June 28, 2018 20:01

  Hi Alex,

  Signature is the hash of timestamp, transformation and API secret.

  These articles explain in detail how to generate the signature:-

  - https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/203817991-How-to-generate-a-Cloudinary-signature-on-my-own-

  - https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images#creating_api_authentication_signatures

  Thanks,
  Aditi

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  Antony

  February 20, 2021 18:06

  Hi Aditi, 

  I'm having the same problem with the signature and all the other parameters but keep getting Invalid credentials response. Could you help me?

  Thanks in advance!

  Antony

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  Aleksandar Kostadinov

  February 20, 2021 18:21

  Hi Antony,

  In order to investigate this further, please use the following form - https://support.publit.io/hc/en-us/requests/new - to create a direct ticket with us and share the code you are currently using to generate the signature and the parameters you're passing. We can then take a look and advise on what changes can be made to resolve it.

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