Hello, I’m a little bit confused here. My api token does not seem to be valid anymore. When I try token = get_access_token( username=‘mpechaud’, password=‘…’, app_id=‘…’, app_secret=‘…’) get_current_user(access_token=token) I get requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorize…

[image] mpechaud: worked perfectly yesterday when you say that it worked perfectly, did it actually work perfectly with GET /v1/users/me? when working with the v1 API, you’re supposed to exchange your access token for a JWT and then use the JWT to make requests. i believe that a typical pyin…

[image] pisum: when you say that it worked perfectly, did it actually work perfectly with GET /v1/users/me? No, actually, it was with a create_observation request, which gives me today this message : raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self) requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Er…

did you use your new token? i think each token gets revoked when you get a new one for the user / application combination. i just tried using an access token on POST /v1/observations/{id}/fave, and it worked fine, whereas the token did not work with GET /v1/users/me. meanwhile, a JWT worked fine fo…

@tiwane or @pleary may want to know about this, if they’re not already aware, in case they have a way to short circuit this. looks like this is related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/import-csv-photo-link/68377 . there, the user indicated that they intended to copy over 60,000 obs from another si…

API : My token does not work anymore in pyinaturalist?

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mpechaud August 7, 2025, 2:20pm 5

ok, thanks.

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