Hi everyone,

I am trying to connect to the demo database of Odoo using xmlrpc.client in python but I get 404 errors everytime.

I tried this with python 3.10 and 3.13 on a Mac, and 3.13 on windows and I always get the same results.

I also have tried different networks (work, home and hotspot).

Note sure what I am doing wrong here. This is just the example code from the documentation. 

I have tried searching for this issue, but there is nobody else with this issue apparently.

import xmlrpc.client

info = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy("https://demo.odoo.com/start").start()

url, db, username, password = info["host"], info["database"], info["user"], info["password"]

common = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy("{}/xmlrpc/2/common".format(url))

common.version()

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<python-input-0>", line 5, in <module>

    common.version()

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1096, in __call__

    return self.__send(self.__name, args)

           ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1435, in __request

    response = self.__transport.request(

        self.__host,

    ...<2 lines>...

        verbose=self.__verbose

        )

  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1140, in request

    return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)

           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1170, in single_request

    raise ProtocolError(

    ...<3 lines>...

        )

xmlrpc.client.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for demo3.odoo.com/xmlrpc/2/common: 404 NOT FOUND>