# API Error: You are not permitted to view the requested resource

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [October 28, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-error-you-are-not-permitted-to-view-the-requested-resource/35035 "2015-10-28T22:30:08Z")\
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I am receiving the following error:

```
DiscourseApi::UnauthenticatedError: 
{"errors"=>["You are not permitted to view the requested resource."], "error_type"=>"invalid_access"}

```

when I make the ruby API call ‘category\_latest\_topics’

```
response = client.category_latest_topics("<some_category>") 

```

This is due to the category permissions (the category is not public). I tried to authenticate by using

```
client.api_username = "system"  

```

and making sure “system” is a member of the group that has permissions to the category but still no luck! Any suggestions or workarounds?

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