You during the signup process you will have received with a link to confirm your application. Currently your api key is marked as waiting for your confirmation. I've gone ahead and enabled your account.
I got the same problem. my whitepages account said my API key is active but when I try to access it through curl, it says developer inactive. can you help me? and I am working on my school project which i have to do "Identify the resources (e.g., mapping from number to name)" how can i do that? any advice? I am using ubuntu and curl btw. thank you
Your key is active. You'll need to put quotes around your URL in cURL or you will have shell interpolation of the ; or & in the url. This can cause the result code you are seeing.
Hi Dan,
me too getting this same error. i check my url,key and parameters everthing is perfect. but still i getting this error. my account status is active. also i clicked the confirmation link send my Whitepages. help me on this ASAP.
Hi AdminAdhithiya,
Can you please send me an example of your query, I can see you have made 26 successful calls and no errors. Your account is active as is your API_KEY.
I am getting the same error as above. My account shows as active and I made some successful queryies via firefox about a day ago, but today it is giving me this error. Any idea why? Thanks.
Same problem with the "Developer Inactive" message for me as well. This worked a few days ago. I think it started failing around May 30. When I signed in to check my status, it said Active, the API key it displayed was not the one I have always used. I changed my code to use the 'new' API, but the error persists.
Here's what I see on my browser:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<h1>Developer Inactive</h1>
Hey there, I'm getting the exact same problem as well. My application sleeps for about 5 seconds between making requests. It gets through about 5 requests and then I start getting the 403 developer inactive problem. Please help!
K -- I'm making a GET request from Play! using their standard library. My application is active. I can go to the requested URL in a browser and return something (even though there are no listings):
{
"listings" : [],
"meta" : {
"apiversion" : "1.0",
"linkexpiration" : "2011-10-06",
"searchlinks" : {
"homepage" : {
"linktext" : "Whitepages.com",
"url" : "http://www.whitepages.com/16176/"
},
"self" : {
"linktext" : "Link to this api call",
"url" : "http://api.whitepages.com/reverse_phone/1.0/?phone=<phone>;api_key=<apikey>;outputtype=JSON"
}
},
"recordrange" : {
"lastrecord" : "0",
"firstrecord" : "0",
"totalavailable" : 0
},
"searchid" : "11011302951513769845"
},
"result" : {
"type" : "success",
"code" : "No Data Found",
"message" : "The search did not find results"
}
}
But using the standard library I get a 403 Developer inactive error. What's going on here?
I recently started to use the API again after about a week or so, and I have been getting the following as a return:
<h1>403 Developer Inactive</h1>
When processing the following request:
http://api.whitepages.com/find_person/1.0/?firstname=erica;lastname=locke;city=stratford;state=ct;outputtype=JSON;api_key=API_KEY
I took my key out for security, but no matter where I process it either in Firefox or cURL I still receive the same response.
Message edited by Sean Dietrich 6 days ago
Dan_WhitePages – 2 years ago
Hi Sean,
You during the signup process you will have received with a link to confirm your application. Currently your api key is marked as waiting for your confirmation. I've gone ahead and enabled your account.
Dan
Sean Dietrich – 2 years ago
I was pretty sure I clicked it, but I suppose I did not, Thank You
Sean
mmalonda – 2 years ago
I got the same problem. my whitepages account said my API key is active but when I try to access it through curl, it says developer inactive. can you help me? and I am working on my school project which i have to do "Identify the resources (e.g., mapping from number to name)" how can i do that? any advice? I am using ubuntu and curl btw. thank you
mmalonda – 2 years ago
by the way my name is martha malonda
Dan_WhitePages – 2 years ago
Hi Martha,
Your key is active. You'll need to put quotes around your URL in cURL or you will have shell interpolation of the ; or & in the url. This can cause the result code you are seeing.
AdminAdhithiya – 2 years ago
Hi Dan,
me too getting this same error. i check my url,key and parameters everthing is perfect. but still i getting this error. my account status is active. also i clicked the confirmation link send my Whitepages. help me on this ASAP.
hernan_whitepages – 2 years ago
Hi AdminAdhithiya,
Can you please send me an example of your query, I can see you have made 26 successful calls and no errors. Your account is active as is your API_KEY.
Thanks,
anyone35 – 2 years ago
im new to this and have my doubts about it working should be fun to see
sundansx – 2 years ago
I am getting the same error as above. My account shows as active and I made some successful queryies via firefox about a day ago, but today it is giving me this error. Any idea why? Thanks.
pagine – 2 years ago
Even I am getting the same error as above today.Help me
ashore – 2 years ago
Another instance of <h1>Developer Inactive</h1>
I'm developing a CAD application - NO BATCH LOOKUPS - I PROMISE! and my testing may have inadvertently violated the seconds limit.
My key is.
<API_KEY>
Appreciate any help on this. AS
LarryS – 2 years ago
Same problem with the "Developer Inactive" message for me as well. This worked a few days ago. I think it started failing around May 30. When I signed in to check my status, it said Active, the API key it displayed was not the one I have always used. I changed my code to use the 'new' API, but the error persists.
Here's what I see on my browser:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<h1>Developer Inactive</h1>
Thanks for any help.
jim – 2 years ago
I am seeing the same thing with mine.
vmohan – 2 years ago
when i check my url it gives 403 error. please help me out.
djbinter2 – 2 years ago
Yes, I also see:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<h1>Developer Inactive</h1>
Seems like the application is not resolving correctly.
smnirven – 2 years ago
Hey there, I'm getting the exact same problem as well. My application sleeps for about 5 seconds between making requests. It gets through about 5 requests and then I start getting the 403 developer inactive problem. Please help!
franklovecchio-dev – 2 years ago
K -- I'm making a GET request from Play! using their standard library. My application is active. I can go to the requested URL in a browser and return something (even though there are no listings):
{ "listings" : [], "meta" : { "apiversion" : "1.0", "linkexpiration" : "2011-10-06", "searchlinks" : { "homepage" : { "linktext" : "Whitepages.com", "url" : "http://www.whitepages.com/16176/" }, "self" : { "linktext" : "Link to this api call", "url" : "http://api.whitepages.com/reverse_phone/1.0/?phone=<phone>;api_key=<apikey>;outputtype=JSON" } }, "recordrange" : { "lastrecord" : "0", "firstrecord" : "0", "totalavailable" : 0 }, "searchid" : "11011302951513769845" }, "result" : { "type" : "success", "code" : "No Data Found", "message" : "The search did not find results" } }
But using the standard library I get a 403 Developer inactive error. What's going on here?
bheathr – 2 years ago
I have activated my account, and it has been about an hour. I am still getting <h1>403 Developer Inactive</h1>
Dan_WhitePages – 2 years ago
bheathr, your account is active and the key works. (I just checked it)
Please check the URL you are using to make the request. If the api_key isn't being passed in you will see this error.
Riyaz Mohd – 1 year ago
I have activated my account on 24-02-2012 and still I am still getting <h1>403 Developer Inactive</h1>. Please do the needful.
Thanks & Regards Riyaz Mohd.
Riyaz Mohd – 1 year ago
Sorry small mistake on my part, its working fine and well.
phice – 1 year ago
I am also getting <h1>Developer Inactive</h1>. Please help
theryanburke – 11 months ago
Had this issue. Constructing a URL and pasting into browser worked fine, but curl and web app requests were failing with 403 Developer Inactive.
Solution: change URL param separator from semi-colon ';' to ampersand '&'.
Failing URL: http://api.whitepages.com/reverse_phone/1.0/?phone=1234567890;api_key=<redacted key>;outputtype=JSON Fixed URL: http://api.whitepages.com/reverse_phone/1.0/?phone=1234567890&api_key=<redacted key>&outputtype=JSON
BorisYeltsin – 11 months ago
<h1>403 Developer Inactive</h1>
I re-clicked the confirmation link and it says I am already active. That was about an hour ago.
No rush. I think I should go outside and play for a while anyhow.
Have a great weekend!
-Mark