Razorpay:BAD_REQUEST_ERROR Please provide your api key for authentication purposes

Question

I am newbie, working on codeigniter and I am using the razorpay payment gateway apis for transferring the amount using route concept as defined in the razorpay documentation. When I am calling the api using curl I am getting the error:

{ "error": { "code": "BAD_REQUEST_ERROR", "description": "Please provide your api key for authentication purposes.", "source": null, "step": null, "reason": null, "metadata": {} } }

the code i used is :

$url = 'https://api.razorpay.com/v1/payments/pay_E8JR8E0XyjUSZd/transfers';

/* Array Parameter Data */
$data = ['account' => 'va_FWSvFCwsaV1w5K', 'amount' => 90, 'currency' => 'INR'];

/* pass encoded JSON string to the POST fields */
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        
/* set the content type json */
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json','YOUR_KEY_ID','YOUR_KEY_SECRET'));
        
/* set return type json */
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        
/* execute request */
$result = curl_exec($ch);
         
/* close cURL resource */
curl_close($ch);
print_r($result);

How should I place my key and secret in curl so that error does not occur.

Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

refer - https://razorpay.com/docs/api/orders/#create-an-order — Ayush v, Apr 09 '21 at 04:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '20 at 16:55

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The error message is pretty self-explanatory. This line:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json','YOUR_KEY_ID','YOUR_KEY_SECRET'));

Should contain your actual key and secret, not your_key_id and your_key_secret placeholder strings. Otherwise, authorization will fail

answered Sep 06 '20 at 16:55

Javier Larroulet

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i have used actual key and secret but error remains same @Javier Larroulet – mohsin Sep 06 '20 at 17:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '21 at 20:34

You will require to encode key:secret in base64 format. And then add another header Authorization to make this API working.

headers = {
   "Content-Type": "application/json",
   "Authorization": "Basic " + encode_base64(Key:Secret)
}

In your case,

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json','Authorization:Basic (encoded_string)'));

Let me know if it works for you!

Razorpay:BAD_REQUEST_ERROR Please provide your api key for authentication purposes

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