Merge pull request #2672 from mashehu/handle-api-redirects

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 - Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.1.13 ([#2660](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2660))
 - Add new subcommand: `nf-core logo-create` to output an nf-core logo for a pipeline (instead of going through the website) ([#2662](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2662))
 - Update actions/cache action to v4 ([#2666](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2666))
+- Handle api redirects from the old site ([#2672](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2672))
 - Remove redundanct v in pipeline version for emails ([#2667](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2667))
 
 # [v2.11.1 - Magnesium Dragon Patch](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/releases/tag/2.11) - [2023-12-20]

nf_core/utils.py

@@ -420,11 +420,14 @@ def poll_nfcore_web_api(api_url, post_data=None):
         except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
             raise AssertionError(f"Could not connect to URL: {api_url}")
         else:
-            if response.status_code != 200:
+            if response.status_code != 200 and response.status_code != 301:
                 log.debug(f"Response content:\n{response.content}")
                 raise AssertionError(
                     f"Could not access remote API results: {api_url} (HTML {response.status_code} Error)"
                 )
+            # follow redirects
+            if response.status_code == 301:
+                return poll_nfcore_web_api(response.headers["Location"], post_data)
             try:
                 web_response = json.loads(response.content)
                 if "status" not in web_response: