I just registered with DHL and created a tracking app on their developer portal. I wrote the API call in python and am getting the following error:
Error: 401, {"status":401,"title":"Unauthorized","detail":"Unauthorized for given resource."}
Here is my code with API Key removed:
import re
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import requests
def track_dhl_package(tracking_number, api_key, service):
headers = {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'DHL-API-Key': api_key
}
# Include the 'service' parameter in the query string
url = f'https://api-eu.dhl.com/track/shipments?trackingNumber={tracking_number}&service={service}'
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
if response.status_code == 200:
return response.json()
else:
# Including response.text to provide more details on why the request failed
return f"Error: {response.status_code}, {response.text}"
# Example usage
tracking_number = "927489032613xxxxxxxxxx"
api_key = "######################"
service = "ecommerce" # Adjust based on the actual DHL service used for your shipment
print(track_dhl_package(tracking_number, api_key, service))
Does anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? The app says I have no defined rate limit.
