Newbie question about getting an API call to work for the first time

[David Taylor]

Hello everyone!  I'm somewhat experienced calling these sorts of APIs, but have not worked with ORCID before.  I've got a question.  I'm just trying to call the public api for now.  I can get a token, but when I use that token to make a call I keep getting a 405 Method Not Allowed.  Specifically, I'm trying to do these steps which are taken directly from the documentation:

I am (as far as I can tell) following the instructions exactly.  Like I said, the call marked "1" works fine.  When I use the token from Step 1 in Step 2 I get the 405.  Any ideas?  Any debugging tips?  Is this documentation correct or is something missing?

Thanks in advance!

[Wilmers, Catalina]

Hi David,

A couple common issues that return a 405 error are pointing to the wrong API (make sure both the token and the call are to either pub.sandbox.orcid.org or pub.orcid.org) or the wrong method (such as POST instead of GET). For more help than that I'd need to see the call you're making. If you want to send your calls (with the secret and token redacted if you're working on the production API) I'll take a look.

Best,

-Catalina

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[David Taylor]

Thanks!  I think you are correct.  I was doing a POST when I should have been doing a GET.

[Monica Duke]

There is a handy list of error codes here as well (slightly buried in the API reference section of the menu)

http://members.orcid.org/api/api-error-codes

 

Monica

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[David Taylor]

Thanks!  Yes, I had actually reviewed this but it didn't help.  It might be worthwhile to add something about mistakenly using POST instead of GET or something like that.  In hindsight, I probably should've understood that from the error message itself, but I didn't.