# New to API, 403 Errors

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-to-api-403-errors/67841>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-to-api-403-errors/67841 "2017-08-10T22:06:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-to-api-403-errors/67841/6 "2017-08-11T00:13:03Z")

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What user type should I be using to add a member to a group via the API? If I go to /admin/users/list/active I appear to have three types of users: admin users, moderators, unprivileged.

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