# Problem validating API Key
**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/problem-validating-api-key/6622
**Category:** 🤝 Community Help
**Tags:** bugs, export
**Created:** [July 25, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/problem-validating-api-key/6622 "2024-07-25T16:27:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Eltouny](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Omar_Eltouny)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/problem-validating-api-key/6622/1 "2024-07-25T16:27:28Z")
I am trying to train a dataset to detect football players on a football pitch. I am using this code snippet to fetch my dataset
from roboflow import Roboflow
rf = Roboflow(api\_key=“xxx”)
project = rf.workspace(“roboflow-jvuqo”).project(“football-players-detection-3zvbc”)
dataset = project.version(1).download(“yolov8”)
## And I receive this error. retrying… retrying… retrying… retrying… retrying…
RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in \()
5
6 from roboflow import Roboflow
----\> 7 rf = Roboflow(api\_key=“xxx”)
8 project = rf.workspace(“roboflow-jvuqo”).project(“football-players-detection-3zvbc”)
9 dataset = project.version(1).download(“yolov8”)
7 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/roboflow/ **init**.py in check\_key(api\_key, model, notebook, num\_retries)
44 return check\_key(api\_key, model, notebook, num\_retries)
45 else:
—\> 46 raise RuntimeError(“There was an error validating the api key with Roboflow” " server.")
47 else:
48 r = response.json()
RuntimeError: There was an error validating the api key with Roboflow server.
Thank you for your time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/problem-validating-api-key/6622/2 "2024-08-15T16:27:33Z")
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