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Seo moz api request problem [401 error_message Your authentication failed]
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Hello Team,
I have moz pro account.
I'm getting following error for seomoz call using your API:
{"status":"401","error_message":"Your authentication failed. Check your authentication details and try again. For more information on signed authentication, see: http://apiwiki.moz.com/signed-authentication"}
The link that we are using is:
http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/And following bits are requested during the call:
- 68719476736
- 34359738368
- 32
- 2048
- 16384
The error is intermittent. It comes and goes. There were no issues with results 3 days ago. I suddenly started getting this error. Could you please investigate into it and let me know the cause of issues and its correctiveness.
It will great if you can provide us a support email Id for immediate response.
Thanks,
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Hey There,
I am so sorry you ran into this issue with the API. Due to an incredibly heavy traffic volume on the Mozscape index, one of our servers crashed, causing an outage in the tools that pull data from the index. The issue has been fixed and you should be able to access the tool with no issues now.
Please give that a try and let us know if you need any other assistance.
Chiaryn
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