403-Forbidden when using the API

[Eduardo Scoz]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to port Quicklytics, my iPhone app (quicklytics.com) to the new v3 API, but I'm getting an error when trying to get data from the Data Export API. 

Everything goes fine with OAuth (authentication, and then getting the real token), but once I call the analytics API to get data, I get the 403 error. I tried passing the auth token via both a header parameter ("Authorization: Bearer __CODE___") and the URL parameter ("&access_token=__CODE__), and I always get the same error:

 {"error":{"errors":[{"message":"Forbidden"}],"code":403,"message":"Forbidden"}}

I would appreciate any help! More info below:

I tried also the Google API Explorer, and I get this error: 

analytics » v3 » data.ga.get executed moments ago time to execute: 109 ms

You do not have permission to execute this method.

I have also tried the Google OAuth 2.0 Playground, and i get the same error (auth code is modified):

GET /analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:259287&dimensions=ga:Hour&metrics=ga:Visits,ga:Pageviews,ga:Bounces&start-date=2011-12-24&end-date=2011-12-26 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.googleapis.com
Authorization: OAuth ya29.AHES6ZTQkuiFsMS____SOMETHINGHERE_____mO_KQqmkTbw-S7j2xbYw
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
status: 403
content-length: 79
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
x-content-type-options: nosniff
expires: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:30:49 GMT
x-google-cache-control: remote-fetch
server: GSE
via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
cache-control: private, max-age=0
date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:30:49 GMT
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
-content-encoding: gzip
{"error":{"errors":[{"message":"Forbidden"}],"code":403,"message":"Forbidden"}}

[Eduardo Scoz]

By the way, it's worth mentioning that I can successfully download data from the management API and get all the web properties for a user. Making a request with the proper authentication header on this URL works just fine: 

https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/~all/webproperties

Any ideas guys?

[Eduardo Scoz]

One more update: I just tried using other APIs (like the tasks API, and the authentication works just fine.  Just changing the URL to point to a different service (and adding the scope) works, with the same header authentication parameter.

This must be some kind of problem on the API side.. help! 

[Eduardo Scoz]

So it seems like the problem was my fault. I was using the incorrect ID on the Google Analytics profile to pull the data. Oh well. 

[Nick]

Thats great you solved it!

-Nick

[ryan marshall]

can you explain a little more about the ID you were incorrectly using? I'm having the same issue

[Prachyut Shrestha]

Eduardo, 

I am continually running into (403) Forbidden issue. I am guessing, my issue is similar to what you had, something to do with ID on Google Analytics profile or wrong API or IDs pointing to wrong API. Could you elaborate more?

Thank you,

[Eduardo Scoz]

It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, I was using the property ID instead of the profile ID when reading the data. Check to make sure you're using both ids correctly.

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[Prachyut Shrestha]

Thanks, will do.

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[Arslan haktic]

Hi, I am also getting same errors while i am tryinng to get purchased item varification from google console using 

GET https://www.googleapis.com/androidpublisher/v1.1/applications/packageName/inapp/productId/purchases/token

i have obtained access token which is refreshed and updated, my google purchase is fully ok , i am putting correct information as arguments but still getting 

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-length: 166
X-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
X-content-type-options: nosniff
Expires: Sat, 10 May 2014 13:51:05 GMT
Server: GSE
Cache-control: private, max-age=0
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 13:51:05 GMT
X-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
{
  "error": {
    "code": 403, 
    "message": "Forbidden", 
    "errors": [
      {
        "domain": "global", 
        "message": "Forbidden", 
        "reason": "forbidden"
      }
    ]
  }
}
 Please help my in this i have wasted more then 2 days for this.

[Prashanth Kumar]

I am facing the 403 forbidden error. I have created an executable, which takes date as an input and provide the results. It works fine in my local, but throw 403 forbidden error in server. 

Any ideas to this issue?