Salesforce Rest API call from typescript using axios - axios

Question

I am trying to fetch records from a scratch org using the tooling API provided by salesforce and user access token. Lets say
accesstoken = "abcd"
url = "https://example.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v49.0/tooling/query?q=SELECT+Id,Name+FROM+Account"
I have used axios node module to make the API call as given below
const options = {
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + accessToken,
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
};
axios.get(url, options).then(response => {
console.log(response.status);
if(response.status == 200){
console.log(response.data);
} else {
//do something else
}
});
The call responds with a status 200 i.e the request provided a response. But instead of correct records from Account object, I get the login html page
' Login | Salesforcehtml{visibility:
hidden;}a{color:#0070d2;}body{background-color:#F4F6F9;}#content,.container{background-color:#ffffff;}#header{color:#16325c;}body{display:
table;
width:100%;}#content{margin-bottom:24px;}#wrap{height:100%;} html { visibility: hidden; } if (self == top)
{document.documentElement.style.visibility = 'visible';} else
{document.write = ''; top.location = self.location;
setTimeout(function(){document.body.innerHTML='';},
1);window.self.onload=function(evt){document.body.innerHTML='';};}var
SFDCSessionVars={"server":"https://test.salesforce.com/login/sessionserver212.html","im":true,"ah":"active","save":"Save","saveOne":"Save
1 Change","sum":"#p# Saved Usernames","iaac":false,"hac":"Choose a
Username","suo":"1 Saved Username","title":" |
Salesforce","saveMany":"Save #p#
Changes","lpt":"Login","lllbl":"Lightning
Login","host":"test.salesforce.com","le":false,"heu":"Edit Username
List","ic":false,"lh":false,"ur":"https://business-data-8148-dev-ed.cs79.my.salesforce.com","hidp":"Log
In Using","ih":"inactive","dc":"Username removed. Click Save to Commit
Changes."};LoginHint.hideLoginForm();Edit ListSaveCancel
UsernamePassword Caps Lock is on.Remember
meForgot Your
Password?To go to your company's login
page, enter the custom domain name.Custom Domainhttps://domain.my.salesforce.comContinueBackLog In with a Different
Username© 2020
salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved.<iframe frameborder="0" src="/s.gif" id="marketing"
name="marketing" scrolling="no" title="Marketing"
tabindex="-1"sandbox="allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups
allow-same-origin allow-scripts" >LoginLoginHint.getSavedIdentities(false);function
handleLogin(){document.login.un.value=document.login.username.value;document.login.width.value=screen.width;document.login.height.value=screen.height;document.getElementById("Login").disabled=true;document.getElementById("login_form").submit();}function
lazyload(){document.getElementById("pwcapsicon").src="/img/icon/capslock_blue.png";document.getElementById("marketing").src="https://c.salesforce.com/login-messages/promos.html";}loader();
'
Does anyone know what am I missing in here? According to salesforce documentation
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/dome_query.htm
the accessToken in the header should be enough to make the API call.
Note: I gained the access token by running
sfdx force:user:display -u <username>

Answer 1

Your query is wrong. You selected Tooling API service which is for metadata (info about classes, triggers, objects, fields, deployments, running unit tests...). If you want to query Accounts - that's normal data. Try just /services/data/v49.0/query?q=SELECT+Id,Name+FROM+Account
I don't think you need Content-Type header in there. You don't POST anything. At best you can send Accept (application/json, application/xml)
Are you sure the session id was valid? As in you could go to the org, Setup -> Session management, see it there? Or in the user's login history?
It might be that your SF admin did something nasty like locking sessions down to IP from which they originated or maybe the user doesn't have API access... See if you can create your call in Workbench -> Utilities -> REST Explorer first, then go back to Axios?