Trying to read data bucket via URL - Solved

[rascal]

edit: the bucket Id needs be in the URL, NOT the bucket name as suggested below.

Hi I have data bucket which contains some valid data.
I am trying to read the data via url using the format:

http://api.thinger.io/v1/users/[USERNAME]/buckets/[BUCKET NAME]/data?items=1&max_ts=0&sort=desc&authorization=[AUTH TOKEN]
I have generated an access token for the data bucket and pasted it in [AUTH TOKEN]
I have put in my bucket name in [BUCKET NAME]
and my username in [USER NAME]
but I constantly get:
{“error”:{“message”:“unauthorized”}}

My url is similar to the one that is mentioned in this post:

Is it possible to limit the ReadBucket API

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I can’t work out what I’m doing wrong, I’m happy to share more info (tokens etc)
I also read this:

Data bucket query, from a device

I want to share with the community one way to recover a variable from a bucket, with a NodeMCU board, it can be done using two functions, one to ask to the bucket the last data, and other to extract the specific value from that response. The link to execute the consult should be as the next, and it will return the last bucket value, change the fields [USERNAME], [BUCKET NAME] and [TOKEN] by yours, you can test with the browser to verify it is working http://api.thinger.io/v1/users/[USERNAME]/b…

Any suggestions would be welcome
Thanks
Russell

[ega]

Hi,

You need to allow the permission “Read Bucket” to the token, and must use the bucket id, instead the bucket name.

Hope this helps.