``missing 1 required argument: 'api_key'`` while experimenting basic API call

[bacloud23]

Hi,
Following the tutorial, I am using Ubuntu, exported the SOLCAST_API_KEY in shell, and in the python environment of execution of the script, if this makes any difference.

I encountred the following error:

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-16263a0dce87> in <module>
      7 # install_date | format: yyyyMMdd Will be ignored if a loss_factor is supplied
      8 # latest | [True, False] | default False
----> 9 power_estimated_actuals = PowerFrameHandler.estimated_actuals(location, 5000, azimuth=0)
     10 power_estimated_actuals.pv_estimate.plot()
     11 

~/Bureau/Untitled Folder 1/solcast_frames/powerframehandler.py in estimated_actuals(lat_Lng, capacity, **kwargs)
     19         :rtype: pd.DataFrame
     20         """
---> 21         data = sc.PvPowerEstimatedActuals(lat_Lng.lat, lat_Lng.lng, capacity, **kwargs).content["estimated_actuals"]
     22         new_frame = pd.DataFrame(data)
     23         new_frame.set_index(['period_end'], inplace=True)

~/.conda/envs/tf/lib/python3.6/site-packages/solcast/pv_power_estimated_actuals.py in __init__(self, latitude, longitude, capacity, *args, **kwargs)
     35             self.end_point = self.end_point + '/latest'
     36 
---> 37         self._get(*args, **kwargs)
     38 
     39         if self.ok:

~/.conda/envs/tf/lib/python3.6/site-packages/solcast/base.py in _get(self, api_key, **kwargs)
     23         if api_key == None:
     24             raise TypeError('{type}() missing 1 required argument: \'api_key\''\
---> 25                             .format(type=type(self)))
     26 
     27         logger = logging.getLogger()

TypeError: <class 'solcast.pv_power_estimated_actuals.PvPowerEstimatedActuals'>() missing 1 required argument: 'api_key'

Thank you.

[Siliconrob]

Thank you for bringing this up will run through the steps again to make sure Ubuntu is functioning as detailed.

Have you looked over the setup for the solcast-py library as it is used by this project?

[Siliconrob]

This seems to work locally for me, can you run the following command on your terminal

printenv | grep SOLCAST_API_KEY and you should see something like this (have obfuscated the real key)

SOLCAST_API_KEY=Hz****