topic Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript in Integration, Extension & APIs

Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

jcampbel1 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:44:35 GMT

I am trying to call the endpoint 'api/v1/users/me' in my Javascript application however I get a 401 error.
Prior to this, I get an access token via oAuth and this is stored in session storage. I then call this endpoint and pass in the access token, however I get the 401 error. I have also tried to use the API Key in my code and it does not work. I copied the access token that that gets given to me and I try to use it to call the same endpoint in postman and I still get the 401 error.

Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

rwunderlich — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:36:21 GMT

can you show the call and body you used to generate the token?

-Rob

Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

jcampbel1 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:13:54 GMT

hello, here is how i generate the token.

Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

rwunderlich — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:17:55 GMT

I believe you need to then exchange the authorization code for a token using POST/oauth/token. with an oauth-authorization-code-request. See https://www.qalyptus.com/blog/setting-up-qlik-oauth-for-authentication for a good overview and example.

-Rob
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Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

jcampbel1 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:24:11 GMT

@rwunderlich , my code does this in the callback method. I get the token from the post endpoint. I then try to call the 'api/v1/users/me' endpoint passing in the Bearer token into the authorization and I am given the following error:

"errors":[{"code":"USERS-7","status":404,"title":"Not found"}]}

Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

Dave_Channon — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:13:03 GMT

As a sense check, do you have the right scopes applied on that token - it looks like you might be requesting a non-Qlik scope in that example?

Ref: https://qlik.dev/authenticate/oauth/scopes/

Re: Getting 401 (Unauthorized) error when calling Qlik api endpoint from javascript

jcampbel1 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:13:50 GMT

that was the issue, it works now! thanks