# New Website Usage Mistakes

**URL:** <https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/new-website-usage-mistakes/3447>\
**Category:** C3S - Datasets and Usage\
**Tags:** api, era5\
**Created:** [25 July 2024 06:27 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/new-website-usage-mistakes/3447 "2024-07-25T06:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Laurens\_Stoop](https://forum.ecmwf.int/user_avatar/forum.ecmwf.int/laurens_stoop/32/480_2.png) [@Laurens\_Stoop](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Laurens_Stoop)\
**Post date:** [25 July 2024 12:20 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/new-website-usage-mistakes/3447/4 "2024-07-25T12:20:45Z")

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Maybe set your file as follows:

```auto
url: https://cds-beta.climate.copernicus.eu/api
key: [key here]

```

The inclusion of your UID within the .cdsapirc file is gone for the CDS-beta system. In the past you indeed needed to list both user id & key, now just the key.

The old one looked like:  
 ![afbeelding](https://forum.ecmwf.int/uploads/default/original/1X/f2d4ecbf4c5f9459aab4ef8818c6a4060c599240.png)  
But the new one looks like:  
 ![afbeelding](https://forum.ecmwf.int/uploads/default/original/1X/68d708edbfe309dc58c232d32d73df8f18be95a7.png)

[The other topic post on this.](https://prod.ecmwf-forum-prod.compute.cci2.ecmwf.int/t/unable-to-download-corresponding-data-using-the-new-api/3448/7)

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