HTTP Error 403 with api_id in accessing Google Maps

Question

I am planning to use the package \"googlemaps\" in Python and had trouble with the api_id.

The following codes:

from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
gma         


        

Answer 1

Api v2 was closed down on sept 13, 2013. Your question was asked on 14th - so that migh be a clue :) . What I managed to do is simply modify URLs in googlemaps.py and now it's working OK for routing.

I changed _DIRECTIONS_QUERY_URL (line 165 of googlemaps.py) to:

_DIRECTIONS_QUERY_URL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/output?'

And it worked fine. Also I tried modiying line 164: _GEOCODE_QUERY_URL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/output?' as suggested here but there's some error, and a) I don't need it anyway b) it's already covered by pygeocoder which is a bit more advanced that googlemaps.py