User Authorization Required when trying to download report with API call

[PearsonPrentice]

I'm writing a Python script that runs a series of reports daily. So far, the script successfully runs the report, waits for it to finish, then stores the link to the file in a variable called fileURL. When I run the following request:

response = requests.get(fileURL, headers = headers)

I get the following error:

{"status":"unauthenticated","errors":[{"message":"user authorization required"}]}

I've included the access token as a parameter of the request header, so how can I authenticate this request?

[PearsonPrentice · Accepted solution]

Update in case anyone in the future comes across this:

Once the report is finished running (status = complete) there is a JSON value called "attachments" that you can get as a dictionary. Inside of the dictionary there is a value called "url" which returns a url to the file that you can download with a GET request. The relevant part of the code I used is below:

#The following chunk is ran in a recursive function - run status, check to see if statusID = complete - if so, continue, if not, sleep and then call the function again

#url = the HTTP url that I used to run the report

statusURL = url + "/" + str(id)

getStatus = requests.get(statusURL, headers = headers)

response = getStatus.json()

statusString = json.dumps(response)

parser = json.loads(statusString)

statusID = parser["status"]

#Once we get to here we know the report is completed - fileURL is the one you can call a GET request with

attachment = parser["attachment"]

fileURL = attachment["url"]

[espalia]

I am having the same issue as you posted originally, but I am having trouble implementing the solution. I don't understand how this solves the authentication token problem. I think the part of the code I don't understand is this: 

statusURL = url + "/" + str(id) 

What is the str(id), and do I need to define the `id` parameter? When I run as-is, I get the following error:

----> 9 response = getStatus.json()
JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)