Adding Course Content through API calls
I'm following the https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/1529-adding-course-content using Postman. I've followed most of the tutorials on the site with success with this one exception. When I run the API call, according to the directions, I get a { Errors: [ {Message: "Insufficient scope to call API.Required: content:modules:read"} ] }. How can fix this?
Answers
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The application making that API call needs to:
- be registered as wanting to ask for the
content:modules:readscope - ask for that scope when requesting an OAuth2 access token
- actually be given an access token that does have this scope (if the app meets the first two bullets, this bullet should take care of itself)
- be registered as wanting to ask for the
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@Viktor Haa62 and @Andrea Bla691 Thank you for that information, I'm new to this and just started playing last night. I created the new authorization and added the correct scope but I'm now getting this error message when I click Get New Access Token.
{"error":"invalid_scope","error_description":"Client is not authorized to request the scope content:modules:read"}
If I'm the administrator to the system, shouldn't I be authorized?
Thank you,
Justin Bamberg
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Justin,
Can you confirm that the application whose OAuth credentials you are using to make these calls also has the above scope added? You can find this information by:
- Navigate to the admin "cog"
- Locate and click the "Manage Extensibility" item
- Locate and click the "OAuth 2.0" tab
- Locate and edit your application
- Ensure the scope field includes the scope above (content:modules:read), and any other relevant scopes
Follow Viktor's steps again and hopefully, you are able to generate a valid token.
Cheers,
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@Joshua Vie797 Thank you, that worked. I didn't know that I could add multiple scopes in the application on D2L. I appreciate your help as I continue to learn.
