Are EC2 servers blocked from using the Moz API?
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Hi
I've created a script that I'd like to use to check a list of domains using the Moz API.
It works totally fine on my local machine.
However, when I run it from my EC2 instance, it fails every time. To be specific, the response is always empty (the response is an empty json array) when the request is sent from EC2.
Is, for some reason, EC2 blocked by the Moz API?
Many thanks for your help, Andrew
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Sure thing! Good to hear. Good luck!
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Thanks Aaron, there was a simple error in the code that got discovered (and yep, you're right, I was using old API keys as well).
All good now, but thanks for the reply.
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Hey Andrew! Sorry you're having this issue. I tried to find your API key using this account that you posted from, but it doesn't look like it has an API key associated with it. Are you using the API key from a different account? Let me know and I'll be able to see if it's specific to your account. If you can post the code that you're using (you can remove the account-specific details), that might help us, too. Thanks!
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