"405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED" when trying to submit listens via python

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I’ve downloaded my listening history from libre.fm into a csv file, and I’m now trying to submit it to listenbrainz. When I try the example code for the submit-listens endpoint from https://listenbrainz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/api-usage.html, I get this error:

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 405 Client Error: METHOD NOT ALLOWED for url: https://api.listenbrainz.org/1/submit-listens

The only change I’ve made to the code is to set the ROOT url to “api.listenbrainz.org”.

Has anyone else encountered this?

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It looks like listenbrainz is redirecting http requests to https, which is then causing the request to be sent with a GET instead of a POST.
I tested that changing this line:

url="http://{0}/1/submit-listens".format(ROOT),

to

url="https://{0}/1/submit-listens".format(ROOT),

causes the submission to correctly work. I’ll open a ticket to suggest that we use HTTP 308 instead of 301 in order to preserve the method when performing a redirect. We’ll also update the documentation to submit directly to https. Thanks for reporting the issue!

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