Suddenly cannot login to the Api

[timcadieux]

Has been working fine for the lat 2-3days since I started working with it. I am able to login to the website and I even did a password change and can still login to th site but not the api.

[samuelclay]

Tell me more, is this a custom oauth app you’re developing? What error do you see? What’s your username?

I’m making a ton of changes right now because it’s the weekend, so it’s entirely possible I borked something!

[timcadieux]

Its a custom app but i’m only on like a week of dev so based on what I read I was just using the cookie. I’m happy to swtich to the oauth if that’s preferable?

username is: timcadieux

all I get when I do api calls is

“{“unread_feed_story_hashes”: {}, “result”: “ok”, “authenticated”: false}”

Hoppscotch returns

{
“code”: -1,
“errors”: {
“username”: [
“Please enter a username.”
]
},
“result”: “ok”,
“authenticated”: false
}

[samuelclay]

Nothing’s broken on the server side - your API login is actually succeeding in the logs. Two issues:

1. In Hoppscotch, make sure you’re sending the login as application/x-www-form-urlencoded form data (not JSON). The “Please enter a username” error means the POST body isn’t being parsed correctly.

2. After login, you need to store and send the session cookie (newsblur_sessionid) with every subsequent request. That’s why you’re getting authenticated: false on other endpoints. With curl: curl -c cookies.txt -X POST -d ‘username=…&password=…’ https://newsblur.com/api/login then curl -b cookies.txt https://newsblur.com/reader/feeds.

[timcadieux]

Hmm, sounds like I borked something on my side instead becuase that is how I had been working.

I’ll give Hoppscotch another go as I’m looking at it and i am using application/x-www-form-urlencoded

There was a trailing comma, argh…

Thanks!