Forbidden error When Accessing WaniKani API

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Hello

I’m currently facing an issue with my WaniKani API integration in my custom application. I’m trying to fetch user progress data using the API, but I keep receiving error code 403 (Forbidden) despite providing the correct API key.

Here’s a snippet of the code I’m using:

import requests

api_key = ‘your_api_key_here’
url = ‘https://api.wanikani.com/v2/user’
headers = {‘Authorization’: ‘Bearer {}’.format(api_key)}

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

print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())

I’ve checked my API key, and it seems to be valid. Could anyone provide some help ; why I might be receiving this error and how to resolve it? WaniKani - WaniKani Community info

Thank you in advance for your help!

Thank you
gregbowers

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I don’t see any immediate problems with your code. Maybe double-check you don’t have any spaces or extra characters in the token value.

I’m using similar code myself. Just checked that it works.

from dotenv import dotenv_values

import requests
import requests.auth


class BearerTokenAuth(requests.auth.AuthBase):
    def __init__(self, token) -> None:
        super().__init__()
        self._token = token

    def __call__(self, r: requests.PreparedRequest) -> requests.PreparedRequest:
        r.headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {self._token}"
        return r


class WaniKaniApi:
    base_url = "https://api.wanikani.com/v2"

    def __init__(self, token: str) -> None:
        self._auth = BearerTokenAuth(token)

    def get_user(self) -> dict:
        r = requests.get(
            url=f"{self.base_url}/user",
            auth=self._auth,
        )
        if r.ok:
            return r.json()
        else:
            print(r.text)
            r.raise_for_status()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    env = dotenv_values()
    wkapi = WaniKaniApi(env["WK_TOKEN"])

    r = wkapi.get_user()
    print(r)

this assumes you have a .env file like this:

WK_TOKEN=123-abc-456-def

and of course you’d need to install python-dotenv package.

Actually, checked your snippet. It works on my end. Also tried a wrong value for the token and the expected error is 401 Anauthorized.

So I think your token is correct but for some reason you don’t have access to the user endpoint :person_shrugging:

Might be because you don’t have an active subscription? But that’s strange for a generic endpoint such as /user.

Try creating a new token maybe.

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Done some of my own testing on a completely fresh account with no active subscription: even a token with none of the optional permissions still gets a 200 with OP’s code snippet. If a new token doesn’t fix things, maybe it’s some kind of IP blacklisting thing?