Permission to make API call

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Hi, I have a noob question (apologize in advance if I’m missing something obvious!):

From https://courses.edx.org/api-docs I can successfully execute the following command, using the “Try it out” button in the website:
curl -X GET " https://courses.edx.org/api/courses/v1/courses/ " -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-CSRFToken: i2GDpNT8yMwb3L4Z89GdgCj0WqpeAmGxTbkdyGj3uYYVFixX9ZCFJinLXy6vEfoP"

However, the following two commands, also executed with the “Try it out” button on the website, return an error:

curl -X GET " https://courses.edx.org/api/credit/v1/courses/AdelaideX%2FHumBio101x%2F1T2015/ " -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-CSRFToken: i2GDpNT8yMwb3L4Z89GdgCj0WqpeAmGxTbkdyGj3uYYVFixX9ZCFJinLXy6vEfoP"

curl -X GET " https://courses.edx.org/api/discussion/v1/courses/AdelaideX%2FHumBio101x%2F1T2015/settings " -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-CSRFToken: i2GDpNT8yMwb3L4Z89GdgCj0WqpeAmGxTbkdyGj3uYYVFixX9ZCFJinLXy6vEfoP"

The error message is "You do not have permission to perform this action."

Can anyone advise how to obtain the relevant permission to perform these actions?

Thank you in advance!

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Hi Howard,
I checked the code related to the credit API and found that you should be a system admin to be allowed to get a response. ( look at this line )
there is no such term for the course API. ( link )

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Thank you @mahyard for this answer!

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