Forbidden: You do not have permission to view member with id <ID>

law · December 30, 2020, 6:22pm

Hello,

We noticed that most (not all) of our API requests return the following:

{
“errors”: [
{
“code”: 6,
“code_name”: “ViewForbidden”,
“detail”: “You do not have permission to view member with id .”,
“id”: “”,
“status”: “403”,
“title”: “You do not have permission to view this member.”
}
]
}

Is anyone else having this problem?

codebard · January 4, 2021, 7:25pm

Is this member still a patron?

law · January 5, 2021, 9:07pm

Yes, and it happens to a lot of members. Not just this one instance.
I’m pretty sure it’s a problem on Patreon’s end.

codebard · January 6, 2021, 3:23am

This may be related to 1st of month Patreon issues. Does this still continue as of today?

law · January 6, 2021, 5:13am

Yes, it unfortunately still continues. A new patron just pledged an hour ago, and he couldn’t access our site (which uses the Patreon APIv2), and when I checked again it was the exact same problem (API returns forbidden for that user). It just appears to happen to random users.

codebard · January 6, 2021, 8:10am

S/he did go through unlock sequence or login via Patreon sequence, right?

law · April 20, 2021, 10:15am

Sorry for the late reply, but I noticed today that when this issue happens, the member id ( API Reference ) changes, so my script uses the old member id and the API return forbidden. It works after the script fetches the new member id.

codebard · April 21, 2021, 12:49am

You can use an all-in-one call to get both the user and membership like how WP plugin does:

github.com

Patreon/patreon-wordpress/blob/b17ec94b1bb3b0c032e79bdd1561431e359c30ea/classes/patreon_api_v2.php#L22


	public $access_token;



	public function __construct( $access_token ) {

		$this->access_token = $access_token;

	}

	

	public function fetch_user() {



		// We construct the old return from the new returns by combining /me and pledge details



		$api_return = $this->__get_json( "identity?include=memberships.currently_entitled_tiers,memberships.campaign&fields[user]=email,first_name,full_name,image_url,last_name,thumb_url,url,vanity,is_email_verified&fields[member]=currently_entitled_amount_cents,lifetime_support_cents,campaign_lifetime_support_cents,last_charge_status,patron_status,last_charge_date,pledge_relationship_start" );



		$creator_id = get_option( 'patreon-creator-id', false );

		$campaign_id = get_option( 'patreon-campaign-id', false );



		

		if ( isset( $api_return['included'][0] ) AND is_array( $api_return['included'][0] ) ) {

			

			// Iterate through included memberships and find the one that matches the campaign.



			foreach ($api_return['included'] as $key => $value) {

law · May 1, 2021, 4:32pm

Sorry for the late reply again, codebard. I keep forgetting to check back here.

That’s very helpful. I’ll try it out! Thank you!