Hi folks - I’m an admin user of our Discourse instance - but I’m unable to query certain endpoints. Sometimes I get this: [image] 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 …

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 cur…

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

Could be - I’m not sure - The set up I have is just the Postman collection downloaded from here: [image] Discourse REST API Documentation Integrations Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: https://docs.discourse.org …

Thanks @blake I’ll give it a try

[image] Ryan_NR: Is this collection no longer valid? Yea some of them are probably outdated.

@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" }

Discourse API - Unable to query certain endpoints

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blake (Blake Erickson) October 1, 2019, 1:14pm 3

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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Discourse API - Unable to query certain endpoints

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