Hi, I'm a newbie and its my first time working with all this. Im trying to get orders to eventually make a little web app so I can display current orders to a monitor. I did https://api.clover.com/v3/merchants/MERCHANT ID/orders?api_key=API KEY
I use my merchant ID and i generated an API token from the website. But everytime I do this call i get {"message":"401 Unauthorized"}. Can someone please help me.
Are you a Clover merchant? You need to pass your token as a header,this page contains some examples of what your request should look like https://docs.clover.com/docs/making-rest-api-calls, I would recommend you read all of the child sections in the navigation on the left to get familiar with using the API.
Yes I am clover merchant. I tried it similar to whats on the docs and it still does not work
curl --location --request GET 'https://api.clover.com/v3/merchants/{yourMerchantId' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YourAccessToken'
Make sure you are passing the correct merchant id - https://community.clover.com/questions/76/how-do-i-find-a-merchant-id-mid.html#:~:text=When%20you%20log%20in%20to,id%20in%20the%20page%20url.
The below call works well like David had earlier mentioned -
Can you use our REST API reference documentation page which has an interactive way to craft an API call, it will just ask you the details needed and generate your API requests, you can just copy paste it? This would ensure you are not missing any elements in your api requests. I am referring to this page. Please use this page to craft your API call and copy paste it.
Also make sure you have the permissions properly set while creating the API token, if you do not have sufficient previleges, you may also again see a 401 unauthorized error.
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