Invalid_access error

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I want to fetch all topics by tag. I am sending a GET request to the URL https://discourse-url/tag/kind:feature.json. But I am getting the error "You are not permitted to view the requested resource. The API username or key is invalid.". Whereas my API-key and API-username are correct. What could be the problem?

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Just to confirm, you can use the same header to request, say /admin/users.json? (I think that’s an admin route, but you can check in a web browser)

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Getting 404 error for this url. I can fetch any topic by sending the request to /t/topic-id.json but not able to do any other GET query successfully. What could be the possible problem

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Can you get http://example.com/admin/dashboard.json? I’m sure that URL should work.

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Not able to get it. Same error 404.

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Then you’re not passing the credentials correctly. You can search for examples of how to pass them in the header.

But I just tested this one:

DISCOURSE_API_KEY==API_KEY=
DISCOURSE_API_USER==API_USER=
    curl -s -X GET --header "Api-Key: $DISCOURSE_API_KEY" --header "Api-Username: $DISCOURSE_API_USER" https://example.com/admin/dashboard.json
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I am passing credentials correctly. I verified it by trying to fetch an internal topic by id which can’t be fetched without proper credentials. But seems like only working query I can do is on discourse-url/t/tid.json. Anything else simply returns error 403.

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