Receiving "HTTP 1.1 403 Forbidden" when attempting to submit API query for petition data to https://www.change.org/v1/petitions

[James Loftus]

Hi,

Not sure if anyone still uses this forum but I thought I would mention a problem I stumbled over last night at around 8pm local time (United Kingdom).

I have a PHP script which submits an API query using https://www.change.org/v1/petitions/api_key=<foo>&petition_ids=<bar>   (where <foo> is my API key and <bar> is the petition I am interested in).
Since last night I now get a 403 Forbidden.  I've not over used the API (I believe there is a limit of 10,000 queries per month or thereabouts ) so I do not think it is that.

Any ideas?  Or is something perhaps broken at change.org?

Cheers, James.

[Naf Nafof]

Same for me.
Change.org api start answering 403 for each request since yesterday for me.

[James Loftus]

Many thanks for confirming.

Looks like the API is broken as I've seen another post today about the same thing.  Guess change.org have either pulled the API or "updated" it :(