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Spotify API "No token provided" error code 401

While using Spotify API to extract user’s top tracks, I’ve been receiving 401 error consistently. The code is shown below:

import json
from requests import post, get
import base64

def get_token():
    auth_string = CLIENT_ID + ":" + CLIENT_SECRET
    auth_bytes = auth_string.encode("utf-8")
    auth_base64 = str(base64.b64encode(auth_bytes), "utf-8")

    url = "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token"
    headers = {
        "Authorization" : "Basic " + auth_base64,
        "Content-Type" : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    } 

    data = {"grant_type" : "client_credentials"}
    result = post(url, headers=headers, data=data)
    json_result = json.loads(result.content)
    token = json_result["access_token"]
    return token

def searchArtist(token, artist_name):
    url = "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search"
    headers = {
        "Authorizations" : "Bearer " + token
    }
    query = f"?q={artist_name}&type=artist&limit=1"
    query_url = url + query
    result = get(query_url, headers=headers)
    data = result.json()
    print(data)

myToken = get_token()
searchArtist(myToken, "ACDC")

The following error is shown:

{‘error’: {‘status’: 401, ‘message’: ‘No token provided’}}

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Am I missing something?

I was expecting the tracks to show. I’ve looked upon Spotify API docs and on my end I’ve been doing everything correctly. Probably I’m missing something or what is the actual, I can’t tell.

>Solution :

In the searchArtist you added Authorizations and it is not correct, it is Authorization without s at the end.

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