# Unable to edit topic via API despite topic write access
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [March 2, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805 "2022-03-02T08:32:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mkows](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mkows)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805/1 "2022-03-02T08:32:54Z")
Hey all,
I noticed that, despite having Topic Write access, I am not allowed to edit topic’s title.
This seem to only work when API key has a global scope.
With API key that has the following permission scopes:
I am getting:
```plaintext
curl 'https:// __NAME__.discourse.team/t/-/19.json' \
-H "Api-Key: 3990a1..." \
-H "Api-Username: system" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X PUT \
-d "{ \"title\": \"Title - test curl v5\" }"
{"errors":["You are not permitted to view the requested resource. The API username or key is invalid."],"error_type":"invalid_access"}
```
And I get the same response when I select all granular scopes.
Only when creating an API key with Scope: Global, I manage to edit topic’s title:
```plaintext
curl 'https:// __NAME__.discourse.team/t/-/19.json' \
-H "Api-Key: 0adc49d..." \
-H "Api-Username: system" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X PUT \
-d "{ \"title\": \"Title - test curl v5\" }"
{"basic_topic":{"id":19,"title":"Title - test curl v5","fancy_title":"Title - test curl v5","slug":"title-test-curl-v5","posts_count":2}}
```
I would expect from topic write access to support edit operation. It seems to me like enforcing global scope for that is not desired.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805/2 "2022-03-02T12:17:59Z")
Are you trying to write a new topic or modify an existing one?
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### Author:  [@mkows](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mkows)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805/3 "2022-03-02T13:35:22Z")
@pfaffman I am trying to edit topic’s title via update topic endpoint [Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#operation/updateTopic)
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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805/5 "2022-03-02T18:03:40Z")
I’ll look into the api scoping for this. My guess is it is only looking at the POST request and not the PUT request for updating.
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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805/6 "2022-03-04T18:50:04Z")
There is [now](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/07e80b52ef6fa1dbfbba5227b93608c2931ab4d8) an **update topic** scope that you can use for this.
```plaintext
curl -i -sS -X PUT "http://localhost:4200/t/-/101.json" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Api-Key: 54096675ed84dcf0016a3b05199cccde67e5175057e53f8e005e2625940a15e6" \
-H "Api-Username: blake.erickson" \
-F "title=8bd599 cae3dfdbf 7210753"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
```
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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-edit-topic-via-api-despite-topic-write-access/219805/7 "2022-03-07T21:54:29Z")