FlightAware authentication - python

[LawrenceHill]

@shodgsonaus

Can anyone please kindly shed some light on why I might be getting authentication issues?

I take it you do have fxmlUrl Set to the correct value for FlightXML3 ?https://flightxml.flightaware.com/json/FlightXML3/
I know that authentication issues arise if you call the wrong version to that associated with your account.
See this discussion where someone had a similar problem:

Python technical support

The API key associated with your account is for FlightXML v2, but the fxmlURL in the example used is for FlightXML v3. This will cause the authentication to fail and the response status code to be a 401. If your example only prints a result on a status code 200 occurs then this is why there is no output. Please try changing the fxmlUrl the value to https://flightxml.flightaware.com/json/FlightXML2/ and update the request to match the format of one of the FlightXML v2 requests found here. You ma…