"Invalid Token" error

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G'day world,

I just started to try the Trello API for one of my project, but the issue is the following:

Despite sending the correct url, i keep getting the 401 "invalid token" error.

https://api.trello.com/1/members/me/boards?key={myAPIKeyhere}&token={myAPITokenhere}

 After checking 3 time, it's the right key and token from https://trello.com/power-ups/{mypowerupID}/edit/api-key.

Maybe i'm doing something wrong, again i'm new to this, but i've followed the documentation, and there's nothing i found to solve this..

[_REDACTED_ _REDACTED_ · Accepted solution]

Hey, thanks for the reply,
i've found the issue, i wasn't using the right token.

I was using the API "Secret" and not the "Token", i realised i had to click on that little text mentioning the "token" generation.

Now it's working just fine, but thanks anyway for your help.

[Rasmus Wulff Jensen]

Please see this video on how to get the API key and Token: https://youtu.be/ndLSAD3StH8?si=LcdBtoj7CmeJ6TBz (the url you describe is not the normal way to do it)

[David Bakkers]

Hello @_REDACTED_ _REDACTED_ 

That Trello REST API request URL path is completely valid and will work perfectly, provided you use a valid Key and Token.

Maybe you left the placeholder left and right brackets { } in the request path, wrapped around the Token, thereby invalidating it?

You just put the Key and Token in directly, like this...

https://api.trello.com/1/members/me/boards?key=11d2ff3c23e92d32543137blahblahblah&token=22a658cd2a6b02083ddeeff90cb720f7de68blahblahblah

You haven't said how you are making the request to the endpoint (IE using what tool / language / library etc.) for your 'project', but if you do that GET request directly via a web browser, you'll know straight away if it's a valid request or you have something wrong in your code.

If you plan to become a Programmer / Developer, you need to learn to use API test tools like Postman or similar to test your requests first, to isolate problems with the request as opposed to coding mistakes.