# Blackbook Errors

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blackbook-errors/170088>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 12, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blackbook-errors/170088 "2009-06-12T07:24:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![uthiravel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/5f8ce5/32.png) [@uthiravel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/uthiravel)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blackbook-errors/170088/1 "2009-06-12T07:24:28Z")

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Hi friends,

I was getting the following error when i am using Blackbook in console

Blackbook::BadCredentialsError: Must be authenticated to access  
contacts.  
from  
/home/uthiravel/projects/git/wissr/vendor/plugins/blackbook-1.0.4/lib/blackbook/importer/gmail.rb:45:in  
`scrape_contacts' from /home/uthiravel/projects/git/wissr/vendor/plugins/blackbook-1.0.4/lib/blackbook/importer/page_scraper.rb:64:in`fetch\_contacts!’  
from  
/home/uthiravel/projects/git/wissr/vendor/plugins/blackbook-1.0.4/lib/blackbook/importer/base.rb:29:in  
`import' from /home/uthiravel/projects/git/wissr/vendor/plugins/blackbook-1.0.4/lib/blackbook.rb:32:in`export’  
from  
/home/uthiravel/projects/git/wissr/vendor/plugins/blackbook-1.0.4/lib/blackbook.rb:56:in  
`get' from /home/uthiravel/projects/git/wissr/vendor/plugins/blackbook-1.0.4/lib/blackbook.rb:16:in`get’  
from (irb):2