Why am I getting a 401 error?

Why am I getting a 401 error?

You will receive a 401 error when you have exceeded the maximum number of requests per minute as allowed by your subscription. Please consider upgrading your subscription to receive more requests per minute.

Our Premium subscription does not put a cap on the number of requests you can make per minute. Consider switching to this plan if you would like unlimited access to our API.

If you are a Premium subscriber and are seeing this message it could be that you are not passing in the required "user_id" URL parameter. We require a user ID for each user on your platform for billing purposes. Learn more about Monthly Active Users.

Please contact us if you have questions.

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