# Unable to access API

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/unable-to-access-api/747473
**Category:** ListenBrainz
**Created:** [March 6, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/unable-to-access-api/747473 "2025-03-06T02:25:25Z")
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### Author: ![mrfavabeans](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mrfavabeans](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mrfavabeans)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/unable-to-access-api/747473/1 "2025-03-06T02:25:25Z")

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Hi there, quite new to ListenBrainz and I’ve been trying to access the API so I can import some .json files. However, whenever I try to access the API through the link provided on the ListenBrainz API documentation (I.e. [https://api.listenbrainz.org](https://api.listenbrainz.org)), I get an error that says “410 Gone ; openresty”.

I get this same error regardless of device or network that I try to use.

Is the API currently down, or is it something on my end?

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### Author: ![RustyNova](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/rustynova/32/123042_2.png) [@RustyNova](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/RustyNova)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/unable-to-access-api/747473/2 "2025-03-06T07:32:09Z")

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Are you using an endpoint?  
[https://api.listenbrainz.org](https://api.listenbrainz.org) is the “root” of the api, and it doesn’t do anything on its own. You need to append something after to tell it what to do  
[Core — ListenBrainz 0.1.0 documentation](https://listenbrainz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/api/core.html#post--1-submit-listens)

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### Author: ![mr\_monkey](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@mr\_monkey](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mr_monkey)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/unable-to-access-api/747473/3 "2025-04-02T15:25:09Z")

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I will add that if you have a lot of items to import, you might want to look at a tool like [elbisaur](https://github.com/kellnerd/elbisaur) until we have a built-in tool to import JSON dumps.