The API you are requesting could not be found

[jeffrean]

I'm using OAuth2.0. I'm able to authenticate and get a valid access token. I then try to do a http GET to https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/profile.json setting the "Bearer" header to the access token. That gives me an error "No user found with provided encoded id: -".

So my next attempt is to specifically paste in my user name and do an http GET to https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/myemailalias%40myserver.com/profile.json, again setting the "Bearer" header to the access token. Now I get an error "The API you are requesting could not be found".

Any ideas? Is this an authentication/authorization issue, or am I incorrectly trying to call the GET API?

[JeremiahFitbit]

The user id expected is your Fitbit user id, not your email address. It looks something like 26FWFL.

You should be able to use '-'. Sounds like you might not be passing the Authorization: Bearer header properly. Here is an example of it working:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE0NDA4MzI0NjAsInNjb3BlcyI6Indwcm8gd2xvYyB3bnV0IHdzbGUgd3NldCB3aHIgd3dlaSB3YWN0IHdzb2MiLCJzdWIiOiIyNkZXRkwiLCJhdWQiOiIyMjhZWDYiLCJpc3MiOiJGaXRiaXQiLCJ0eXAiOiJhY2Nlc3NfdG9rZW4iLCJpYXQiOjE0Mzk0OTIxNDJ9.jkFZ9IbM5iesoVPledsjVTb7bm57Tt48ObNdBlN33Gt" "https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/profile.json" -v

> GET /1/user/-/profile.json HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.37.1
> Host: api.fitbit.com
> Accept: */*
> Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE0NDA4MzI0NjAsInNjb3BlcyI6Indwcm8gd2xvYyB3bnV0IHdzbGUgd3NldCB3aHIgd3dlaSB3YWN0IHdzb2MiLCJzdWIiOiIyNkZXRkwiLCJhdWQiOiIyMjhZWDYiLCJpc3MiOiJGaXRiaXQiLCJ0eXAiOiJhY2Nlc3NfdG9rZW4iLCJpYXQiOjE0Mzk0OTIxNDJ9.erFZ3IbM5iesoVPledsjVTb7bmO3Tt48ObNdBlN22Tg
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx
< X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1
< Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
< Cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate
< Pragma: no-cache
< Fitbit-Rate-Limit-Limit: 150
< Fitbit-Rate-Limit-Remaining: 149
< Fitbit-Rate-Limit-Reset: 231
< Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=E61BA5E7700F07BC82CABE14096DA299.fitbit1; Path=/; HttpOnly
< Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
< Content-Language: en
< Content-Length: 6063
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:56:08 GMT
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
<
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[jeffrean · Accepted solution]

Thank you, that was the problem. I added a "Bearer" header, instead of adding an "Authorization" header with a value of "Bearer <access token>". Once I fixed the header I can now use "-" for the user id as expected.