Is there a special trick to closing a question with the API? Maybe a typo in the documentation? I’m really having trouble getting it to work. All I get is a 401 (Unauthorized) error.My access token is Read Write and works for other operations The URL is https://api2-eu-west-1.insided.com/v2/questions/{id}/toggleClosed I set a moderatorId with the user ID of a current administrator I’ve tried "closed": false and "closed": true in the body without successI’d appreciate any suggestions. This one is just confusing me! Screenshots below.CheersMark

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Is there a special trick to closing a question with the API? Maybe a typo in the documentation? I’m really having trouble getting it to work. All I get is a 401 (Unauthorized) error.

My access token is Read Write and works for other operations
The URL is https://api2-eu-west-1.insided.com/v2/questions/{id}/toggleClosed
I set a moderatorId with the user ID of a current administrator
I’ve tried "closed": false and "closed": true in the body without success

I’d appreciate any suggestions. This one is just confusing me! Screenshots below.

Cheers

Mark

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Thanks @DannyPancratz - I agree, the two different Ids are a little annoying. But that wasn’t the problem. The problem is I was attempting to use the wrong server. I just Googled for insided api and copied the URL from the documentation. But when I noticed the URL looked odd, I went back to my Google search:

The different results had a different URL! So, today’s lesson is to make sure to pick the documentation for the correct server. I assume it’s all the same content, except for the URLs that it quotes.

Doh! Hopefully I won’t do that again. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

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{
  "closed": true
}

The documentation shows false, but that’s just an example of how to toggle it via the API. It needs to be true to close it. False opens it back up.

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But that doesn’t solve your issue with the Unauthorized.

Here’s what it is: the question has two different Ids (big pain point for me).

There’s a questionId and a topicId and sometimes there is a public version of the topicId.

My guess is that you’re using the wrong Id and it’s trying the call on a question that doesn’t exist (often topicId is larger than questionId because it combines all types of topics in the index) so it can’t close a question that it can’t find.

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Thanks @DannyPancratz - I agree, the two different Ids are a little annoying. But that wasn’t the problem. The problem is I was attempting to use the wrong server. I just Googled for insided api and copied the URL from the documentation. But when I noticed the URL looked odd, I went back to my Google search:

The different results had a different URL! So, today’s lesson is to make sure to pick the documentation for the correct server. I assume it’s all the same content, except for the URLs that it quotes.

Doh! Hopefully I won’t do that again. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

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I’m glad you figured it out!

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