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open_http: 403 Forbidden (OpenURI::HTTPError)

I am trying to pull data from my Google+ API, using this script:

require 'open-uri'
require 'json'

google_api_key = 'put your google api key here'
page_id = '105672627985088123672'

data = open("https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/#{page_id}?key=#{google_api_key}").read    
obj = JSON.parse(data)

puts obj['plusOneCount'].to_i

However, I keep getting this error: 

/Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:346:in `open_http': 403 Forbidden (OpenURI::HTTPError)
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:769:in `buffer_open'
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:203:in `block in open_loop'
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:201:in `catch'
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:201:in `open_loop'
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:146:in `open_uri'
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:671:in `open'
    from /Users/xng/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:33:in `open'
    from gplus.rb:8:in `<main>'

I am not sure what is wrong here, any help would be great.

Solution

  • Have to regenerate the API key.