WooCommerce - woocommerce_rest_cannot_view - Status 401

Question

I have generated a consumer key and consumer secret. The website has SSL installed. I have also installed plugins required for JSON and REST services. This is how the url looks like:

https://<url>/wp-json/wc/v1/products

When I am trying to get(GET) the product details using Basic Auth by using POSTMAN, a Chrome plugin, I get a JSON response like:

{
  "code": "woocommerce_rest_cannot_view",
  "message": "Sorry, you cannot list resources.",
  "data": {
    "status": 401
  }
}

I have both the READ and WRITE permissions corresponding to the Consumer key.

Answer 1

The 401 error you are getting is because you are using basic auth even though your website is not secure (does not have https).

The solution in postman is to use OAuth 1.0. Just add the consumer key and consumer secret and send the request.