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Debugging Typesense API Key Error

TLDR James is getting an error related to the x-typesense-api-key header in their Typesense project. Harrison suggests passing the API key in the HTTP header, and Jason advises checking the key via curl and possibly closing a duplicate Typesense server.

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Jan 26, 2022 (24 months ago)

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James

12:42 PM

Hello everyone, i keeo getting this error "Error: Request failed with HTTP code 401 | Server said: Forbidden - a valid x-typesense-api-key header must be sent" anyone got any idea on how to fix it?

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Harrison

12:45 PM

Are you passing the x-typesense-api-key header with your api key?

James

12:47 PM

how do you mean?

Harrison

12:48 PM

when you send a request

12:48

Harrison

12:48 PM

you need to pass a HTTP header which contains the API key that you start typesense with

James

01:29 PM

this is my first time with typesense so a little more info or example will help out please

Harrison

01:32 PM

https://typesense.org/docs/guide/building-a-search-application.html#sample-dataset might be a good point to start

James

01:42 PM

So the thing is that I am using typensese to search my db but whenever i try to run the code I get this error

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Jason

02:06 PM

Could you make an API call to the metrics endpoint using curl and your API key to double check that it works fine: https://typesense.org/docs/0.22.1/api/cluster-operations.html#cluster-metrics

02:06

Jason

02:06 PM

Also how did you create your API key?

James

02:23 PM

export TYPESENSE_API_KEY=xyz
mkdir /tmp/typesense-data
./typesense-server --data-dir=/tmp/typesense-data --api-key=$TYPESENSE_API_KEY --enable-cors and this is the output

Jason

03:12 PM

It looks like you already have another Typesense server listening on 8108

03:13

Jason

03:13 PM

If you do ps aux | grep typesense it will show you the process ID

03:13

Jason

03:13 PM

And then you want to kill it with kill <process id>

04:02

Jason

04:02 PM

Once you do that, you want to make sure the API key works: https://typesense-community.slack.com/archives/C01P749MET0/p1643205974744539?thread_ts=1643200936.386389&cid=C01P749MET0

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