# Valid users get empty RSS for restricted categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/valid-users-get-empty-rss-for-restricted-categories/30051>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** rss\
**Created:** [15 ביוני,‏ 2015,‏ 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/valid-users-get-empty-rss-for-restricted-categories/30051 "2015-06-15T17:08:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [8 במרץ,‏ 2016,‏ 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/valid-users-get-empty-rss-for-restricted-categories/30051/8 "2016-03-08T00:00:52Z")

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You’d have to utilize an API Key to get that to show anything right? (assuming that is supported)

So @Trash, if you have a user who has access to the restricted category and is assigned an API key, see if appending the api\_username and api\_key to the URL makes it return data.

**Edit:** I just tried passing an API username and key to a restricted category for an RSS feed and didn’t get the data, so it seems the RSS implementation isn’t looking for a key for validation. But the category json does return the detail.

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