API endpoint permissions for /courses

Unless I've not read the docs correctly, shouldn't an instructor API token be able to use the GET /v1/courses/{id} endpoint to see information about a single course for which they are enrolled as the instructor? I'm getting "status":"unauthorized" using the live api.

If not I'm having a hard time finding in the permissions matrix where this can be rectified.

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You are getting "status: unauthorised" probably because your account isn't set to have permissions to request data from this endpoint. Contact the managers in your organisation, ask them to authorise your account. Depending on your place's setup, you may have to be re-authorised over regular time intervals (e.g monthly)

maguire

Have you tried it out via https://xxx/doc/api/live where xxx is your canvas instance?

I was able to do this as a student in a course or as a teacher in a course (within a Canvas instance built from source code). However, if the user is not in the course, then I get a response of

{   "<SPAN class="">status</SPAN>": <SPAN class="">"unauthorized"</SPAN>,   "<SPAN class="">errors</SPAN>": <SPAN class="">[     {       "message": "user not authorized to perform that action"     }   ] }</SPAN>

The reason for the unauthorized result is that the code in app/controllers/courses_controller.rb

does a check of the user's permissions and looks for the permissions :read or :read_as_admin.

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