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

**URL:** https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004 "2020-12-30T18:22:51Z")
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### Author: ![law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@law](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/law)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/1 "2020-12-30T18:22:51Z")

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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?

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### Author: ![codebard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.patreondevelopers.com/codebard/32/14_2.png) [@codebard](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/codebard)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/2 "2021-01-04T19:25:44Z")

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Is this member still a patron?

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### Author: ![law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@law](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/law)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/3 "2021-01-05T21:07:10Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![codebard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.patreondevelopers.com/codebard/32/14_2.png) [@codebard](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/codebard)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/4 "2021-01-06T03:23:30Z")

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

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### Author: ![law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@law](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/law)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/5 "2021-01-06T05:13:02Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![codebard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.patreondevelopers.com/codebard/32/14_2.png) [@codebard](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/codebard)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/6 "2021-01-06T08:10:41Z")

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

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### Author: ![law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@law](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/law)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/7 "2021-04-20T10:15:00Z")

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Sorry for the late reply, but I noticed today that when this issue happens, the member id ( [API Reference](https://docs.patreon.com/#get-api-oauth2-v2-members-id) ) changes, so my script uses the old member id and the API return forbidden. It works after the script fetches the new member id.

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### Author: ![codebard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.patreondevelopers.com/codebard/32/14_2.png) [@codebard](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/codebard)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/8 "2021-04-21T00:49:32Z")

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

> <https://github.com/Patreon/patreon-wordpress/blob/b17ec94b1bb3b0c032e79bdd1561431e359c30ea/classes/patreon_api_v2.php#L22>

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### Author: ![law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@law](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/law)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/forbidden-you-do-not-have-permission-to-view-member-with-id-id/4004/9 "2021-05-01T16:32:37Z")

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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!