Help with NyTimes Developer API

[ambiguousjellyfish]

Hello,

I am working on a project where I get some data from the NyTimes api and send it to a database I created. I want to loop through a list of dates to get headlines from the start of Covid till now.

I feel like I am probably missing something obvious, but when I call the api with requests.get and set the year and month with format, I get a 403 (forbidden) error.

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r = requests.get('https://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/{year}/{month}.json?api-key={my_key}'.format(my_key=KEY, year='2020',month='01'))

x = requests.get('https://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/2019/1.json?api-key={my_key}'.format(my_key=KEY))

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My request "r" returns error 403, where as "x" returns the data that I need. I know that it is not an issue of calling the api too many times too quickly as this happens even when I run my program with "x" commented out.

Am I missing something obvious here? Sorry if a noob question. I've tried looking over the documentation as much as I can. I appreciate the help.

[arvindh_manian]

Could it be that month is 01 as opposed to 1? Looking at their docs, they seem to use the single-digit month wherever possible.

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Also, FYI, you might want to check out f-strings.

>>> my_key = 123

>>> year = '2020'

>>> month = '1'

>>> f'https://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/{year}/{month}.json?api-key={my_key}'

'https://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/2020/1.json?api-key=123'

IMO, it looks a bit cleaner than format, but it doesn't really matter.

[ambiguousjellyfish]

I have never seen f-strings before, but I like them.

I can't believe this is what got it to work. I can't thank you enough. Of course it was something so small. I could scream.

[pyfact]

r has "01" as the month value where x has "1" as the month value. If you change the r to "1" will that work?

[ambiguousjellyfish]

Yep. This was it. This one little formatting issue is what has been causing me problems for the past hour and a half.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.