Question
"Can't authenticate you" error when trying to run a DigitalOcean API command
- Posted on February 2, 2018
- APIUbuntu 16.04
Asked by benqzq
I tried to run this command for rebuilding my droplet:
curl -X POST "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/MY_DROPLET_ID/actions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer MY_API_TOKEN" \
-d '{"type":"rebuild","image":"ubuntu-16-04-x64"}'
Note I used MY_DROPLET_ID, taken from my cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets.
Note I used MY_API_TOKEN (read and write), taken from cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens.
I’d like to know what’s bad with my command? I might missed something aside of droplet-ID and API-token.
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Javier from the DO support team helped me with this. I’ll now quote his response:
Indeed, like Javier said, the problem was with the API token. I created a new token and then the operation succeeded.
I also experienced the same issue but resolved it by regenerating a new API token and then
echo token-keyin my local machine from any location. Voila!!!