📅 2024-08-29 — Session: MercadoLibre API Integration and Troubleshooting
🕒 03:10–04:55
🏷️ Labels: Api Integration, Mercadolibre, Python, Error Handling, Oauth 2.0
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The goal of this session was to integrate and troubleshoot various aspects of the MercadoLibre API, focusing on authentication, authorization, and error handling.
Key Activities
- Secured Google account and managed SMS settings after losing a phone.
- Troubleshot JSONDecodeError in API responses by checking API response and validating access tokens.
- Debugged item ID extraction from URLs for API calls to MercadoLibre.
- Resolved 401 Unauthorized error in API requests by focusing on access token validation.
- Implemented OAuth 2.0 authorization flow for MercadoLibre, including handling localhost issues.
- Troubleshot API access token retrieval and resolved PKCE flow error.
- Optimized API queries for MercadoLibre by validating item IDs and handling API responses.
- Fixed DNS resolution issue for MercadoLibre API by correcting the API endpoint.
- Automated phone model searches with MercadoLibre API using Python.
Achievements
- Successfully integrated MercadoLibre API with proper authentication and authorization.
- Improved error handling for various API errors including 401, 403, and 404 errors.
- Enhanced data extraction and processing from the API using Python.