The Movie Database Support

Hi,

So i build an app with react for display a list of movie when the user land on the homepage by using a request to the discovery API and as in the subject i get an error 401 when i land on my homepage i deploy the website by usign at first netlify and now by using the gthub homepage but the result is the same.

i setup the API_KEY in a env.local for the production and perform the change for the build but i still get this error so i think i should test the most basic and direct way to get the request by insert the apikey directly inside the axios request and still i got this error.

this is my first request

useEffect(() => {
        setLoading();

        const fetchMovies = async () => {
            const res = await axios.get(`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=${process.env.REACT_APP_TMDB_API_KEY}&language=fr-FR&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1`);

            dispatch({
                type: INITIAL_LIST_OF_MOVIES,
                payload: res.data.results
            });
        };
        fetchMovies();
    }, []);

as i said i change the process.env.REACT_APP_TMDB_API_KEY to simply TMBD_API_KEY after pass in into a condition for check if the env is in production i even just simply put my API_KEY "59c76c5b****************" for check if even that would work but nothing.

i hope i gave you enough information for help me in the process of fixing that its the first time i use an API and react so everything is new ;)

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Hi @silverGraphik,

Unless someone familiar with React stops by and sees this, this forum is probably not going to be the best place to get React help. All I can say is that your API key, and request are working fine. When I replace your API key with this query, it works properly:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&language=fr-FR&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1

The best thing I can suggest is to head over to and ask over there. It's a lot more suited to programming related questions.

Thanks Travis i find the solution and its look like when i deploy the website on heroku or netlify for the variable process.env.REACT_APP_TMDB_API_KEY whos contain the api key is not read when i call the api from the platform where is stored the data i just replace the variable with the key until i can understand how to deal with that issue

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