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Help #164

Closed mirandar9936 closed 11 months ago

mirandar9936 commented 11 months ago

Hello, I am not a professional software developer but I still need to get info from this API. To get the next results of data from the member endpoint, the pagination member gives me this url: https://api.congress.gov/v3/member?offset=20&limit=20&format=json?

When I use this url I get an error saying that the API key is missing. How do I form a url that includes the API key plus the query string parameters?

Sorry, just learning, hopefully someone can help me.

ryparker commented 11 months ago

You can add the API key to the URL like so, just replace <API_KEY> with your key:

https://api.congress.gov/v3/member?api_key=<API_KEY>&offset=20&limit=20&format=json

I've also published a Postman collection with some of the basic requests. It hasn't been updated in some time but you may find it useful: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/6803158/VV56LCkZ#intro

mirandar9936 commented 11 months ago

Thank you!