Python Client Hello World Fails with https status of 401 "apify_client._errors.ApifyApiError: User was not found or authentication token is not valid"

[bs7280]

TLDR - Hello world python example fails with auth error, debugging http request I don't see my auth token sent anywhere

Hello,

I got an issue with a real apify scraper so I tried the hello world and am getting the same auth error

Thanks, Ben

See details below:

• Code
• Response error
• debugger output
• full traceback

Code:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your API token
client = ApifyClient("apify_api_....")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "first_number": 1,
    "second_number": 2,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("apify/python-example").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Error:

apify_client._errors.ApifyApiError: User was not found or authentication token is not valid

I also did a debugger breakpoint in the _BaseHttpClient() class on line 169 in method _make_request() and have this information below. Biggest thing that sticks out to me is the API token is not sent anywhere? Unless im looking in the wrong spot

(Pdb) request.url
URL('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~python-example/runs')
(Pdb) request.headers
Headers({'host': 'api.apify.com', 'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'accept': 'application/json, */*', 'user-agent': 'ApifyClient/1.6.2 (darwin; Python/3.11.6); isAtHome/False', 'authorization': '[secure]', 'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'content-length': '54'})

Extra info:

Full Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/apify_test.py", line 13, in <module>
    run = client.actor("apify/python-example").call(run_input=run_input)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/_logging.py", line 82, in wrapper
    return fun(resource_client, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/clients/resource_clients/actor.py", line 266, in call
    started_run = self.start(
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/_logging.py", line 82, in wrapper
    return fun(resource_client, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/clients/resource_clients/actor.py", line 219, in start
    response = self.http_client.call(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/_http_client.py", line 195, in call
    return retry_with_exp_backoff(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/_utils.py", line 64, in retry_with_exp_backoff
    return func(stop_retrying, attempt)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/benshaughnessy/code/py_zillow/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apify_client/_http_client.py", line 193, in _make_request
    raise ApifyApiError(response, attempt)
apify_client._errors.ApifyApiError: User was not found or authentication token is not valid

[vdusek]

Hi @bs7280, thank you for reporting the problem. I tried replicating it with my API token and it seems to be working fine.

• Could you confirm if you are using Python 3.8 or a newer version?
• Are you using the latest version of apify-client?
• Please double-check if you are passing in the token correctly.

[vdusek]

Closing it since we haven't received any responses from the questioner. If this is still a problem, let's reopen it.