JS Film Finder Project - 'Invalid API Key'

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#1

Hi Guys,

I’m currently working on the film finder project.

I’m at the point where I’m fetching the data from the TMDB but I’m getting a weird error saying that my API key is not valid.

Here is a portion of my code.

const getGenres = async () => {
  const genreRequestEndpoint = "/genre/movie/list";
  const requestParams = `?key=${tmdbKey}`;
  const urlToFetch = tmdbBaseUrl + genreRequestEndpoint + requestParams;
  console.log(urlToFetch)

  try {
    const response = await fetch(urlToFetch)
    if (response.ok) {
      const jsonResponse = await response.json();
      const genres = jsonResponse.genres;
      return genres;
    }
    throw new Error("Error with Request!");
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
};

and here is the error I’m getting when I use the URL that’s generated by my app.

{
status_code: 7,
status_message: "Invalid API key: You must be granted a valid key.",
success: false
}

I have checked, double-checked copy + pasted and it’s still not valid. Does anyone else have this issue or have any idea what I’ve done wrong?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

#2

I figured it out, turns out the key is valid, but the Base URL I was using was incorrect. It’s not exactly clear, but the Base URL is: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/

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#3

I think
const requestParams = ?key=${tmdbKey};
should be ?**api_key**=${tmdbKey};