# CORS error accessing API from javascript application

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**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cors-error-accessing-api-from-javascript-application/128785 "2019-09-17T12:49:29Z")
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### Author: ![gassim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gassim/32/220910_2.png) [@gassim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gassim)
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> [@SumOne](#):
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> (Api-Key & Api-Username) for authentication.

These are for the admin api only. The way I understood it, is that for JavaScript clients you need to, as mentioned above, check the [User API keys specification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-keys-specification/48536) .

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