Discourse API - Unable to query certain endpoints

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Hi folks - I’m an admin user of our Discourse instance - but I’m unable to query certain endpoints.

Sometimes I get this:

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Other times I am prompted with You need to be logged in to do that

I have confirmed the API key I’m using is attached to my Admin user, and that the API_Username is my own username - do you have any advice on this?

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My guess is the call is not sending the credentials correctly?

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You could try passing the api credentials in the header of the request instead of the query params. There should be an example in the api documentation topic.

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Could be - I’m not sure - The set up I have is just the Postman collection downloaded from here:

I just changed out the API Key, Username, and Base URL.

Is this collection no longer valid?

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Thanks @blake I’ll give it a try

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Yea some of them are probably outdated.

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@blake - Passing creds as a request header is returning the same:

{
    "errors": [
        "You are not permitted to view the requested resource."
    ],
    "error_type": "invalid_access"
}
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I was able to get the group members api request to work on meta with this curl command:

curl -i -sS -X GET "https://meta.discourse.org/groups/my-private-group/members.json" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \
-H "Api-Key: key" \
-H "Api-Username: username"

Maybe you can use the copy as curl command in Postman and compare.

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