ERROR: Operation requires API v3.1, which is not available from this host

[cathymathews-pie]

I'm trying to download content from our instance, and initially, I was getting authentication errors. I uninstalled the looker-deployer package and reinstalled it, and now I get this error:

ERROR: Operation requires API v3.1, which is not available from this host

Is there an API 4.0 version available? I tried to search the code for the api reference, but I couldn't find anything, maybe it's in the gazer project? I didn't manually install gazer, is there a way to update that, if the API is updated there?

What's the best way to proceed on API 4.0 so I can download content from our Looker instance? Thanks!

[cathymathews-pie]

Hm, I see the API 4.0 in get_client.py, so it's something on my system. But I'm pretty sure Looker Deployer and Looker SDK are updated, I did a force reinstall, and these match the current packages on PyPI:

Requirement already satisfied: looker-deployer in /Users/..../site-packages (0.3.11)
Requirement already satisfied: looker-sdk>=21.18.0 in /Users/..../site-packages (from looker-deployer) (23.16.0)

[vaibhavyadnik]

Hi @cathymathews-pie, I am also facing same issue. Did you get any solution on it ? Could you please help me if you found any solution ?
Thanking you in advance

[cathymathews-pie]

@vaibhavyadnik , no, I did not find a solution. I tried recreating my local virtual environment, uninstalling and reinstalling the Looker API and Looker Deployer packages, and nothing worked. I ended up using the Looker API explorer to download content from an environment as a backup, and we're recreating only critical content on the new one through the Looker API explorer. Definitely not ideal, but I didn't have the time to spend trying to figure out what's going on with the Looker Deployer.

[k7ragav]

@cathymathews-pie Think you might need the latest version of gazer as well. I noticed that and I am currently in the process of getting my gazer package updated. You could give that a try and see.
I think this was the version where they started making changes to accomadate API v4

[cathymathews-pie]

Thanks, @k7ragav! I had to install chruby to get the updated gazer gem, but that worked! 🎉
(This is the method I used if anyone else needs to do this too.)

I am able to download content using ldeploy again.