Authentication fails on sandbox for some reason?

[softmarshmallow]

The request,

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      -X GET \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/registrar/domains/example.com/check

JS

const { q } = req.query;
return client.registrar.checkDomain(process.env.DNSIMPLE_ACCOUNT_ID, q);

Returning message

Error: {"message":"Authentication failed","description":"Authentication error"}

• Yes, I have replaced the account id with my own
• Yes, I have provided the access token issued from https://dnsimple.com/a/xxxxx/account/automation

The response does not provide enough information.

• Is it because I'm on free trial?

I cannot use the api. blocked from the authorization.

@aeden

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Edit - seems like it fails on https://api.sandbox.dnsimple.com, but works on https://api.dnsimple.com.

This seams like an internal issue. Is the docs outdated or is this a temporal issue?

(Tested with the same code, only altering the baseurl.)

[aeden]

If you use an access token issues from dnsimple.com, it will not work on sandbox.dnsimple.com. You need to get the access token from sandbox.dnsimple.com to use on sandbox.dnsimple.com.

[softmarshmallow]

Is this supposed to be documented somewhere?

[jacegu]

@softmarshmallow you can read about our sandbox environment in our API overview: https://developer.dnsimple.com/sandbox/. There is also a section in our readme about how to setup the client to target the Sandbox environment: https://github.com/dnsimple/dnsimple-node#sandbox-environment