# Ability to have granular scope for data explorer?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** data-explorer, user-api\
**Created:** [April 17, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351 "2025-04-17T15:31:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jordan-violet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan-violet/32/281428_2.png) [@jordan-violet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan-violet)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351/1 "2025-04-17T15:31:20Z")

</div>

Is there a way to scope an API key to be able to both read and write for [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) queries without giving a globally scoped admin API key?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351)._