Basic Question Testing the APIs

[Chi-Shing Tong]

Hi,

1) Do I need to be an organizer to use the APIs? I am trying to build a site for my personal use that will make sure of these APIs.

2) I am trying to test simple API call provided in the doc but I keep getting 401 Not authenticated either from direct curl command or POSTMAN. Maybe this is related to question 1.

curl -u userid:password -X GET https://api.motorsportreg.com/rest/calendars.json

Thanks,
Chishing

[Chi-Shing Tong]

HI, is there anyone who can help? I am trying to make an API call that will search events based on location.

But none of the following APIs work for me. I am calling this API using my username and password and I am not an organization. Must I be an organization to call these APIs using the header -H "X-Organization-Id: {your-id-here}"?

GET /rest/calendars
GET /rest/postalcodes/{postal_code}

Thanks,

Chishing

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[Brian Ghidinelli]

Chishing, 

Sorry we missed your previous post. A few notes:

1. You do need to have at least read-permissions for an organization in order to access any endpoint that requires an `X-Organization-ID` header. There are other endpoints which require OAuth tokens to access on behalf of a user where you can use that approach instead. 

If you are after events from our calendar, I would highly recommend our new GraphQL API which is desired for building mashups and uses a more straightforward API key. You can see docs here: https://assets.motorsportreg.com/gec/docs/.  To get an API key, please contact our support team thru MotorsportReg.com and they can assist.

2. You will get 401 if you don't have the right access - so that's expected. #1 will solve it!

Brian