When I ran
it output

Then, when I visited the page through my browser, I saw this:

Why didn't my code work?

Reev0102 wrote:

When I ran

response = requests.get("https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/ceebee/messages/count")
print(response.json()["count"])

it output

0

Then, when I visited the site through my browser, I saw this:

{"count":173672}

Why didn't my code work?

Api restricted.

hello_smile wrote:

Api restricted.

?

Reev0102 wrote:

hello_smile wrote:

Api restricted.

?

Ask chiroyce.

The API intentionally returns
when a computer with certain user agents that are usually related to programs tries to GET from the message count API and probably a few others.
Maybe that happened?

-FantasticScratcher- wrote:

Scratch Javascript On!

Scratch Javascript Python On!

Reev0102 wrote:

-FantasticScratcher- wrote:

Scratch Javascript On!

Scratch Javascript Python On!

Pyth On!

Hi there,

Someone requested the messages API A LOT using a script (python or JavaScript) and so the scratch team has put some restrictions for the message count api. The URL is still available but I don't think I'm allowed to share it now, so yeah, I'm sorry but the scratch team has had some struggles with the message count api and I'm very sure that they wouldn't like any external scripts to request the message count API.

So in short - please don't request the message count API.

Have a nice day and scratch Python on!

CST1229 wrote:

when a computer with ….
Maybe that happened?

I recommend you don't explain the problem with this - people may workaround this and spam the servers again, so why don't we just say that there are some “restrictions” and not exactly what those “restrictions” are?

Closed as resolved.