Forge macros. How to check if user can edit page?

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Hi Team,

I’m developing confluence macro on Forge. I would like to disable some functionality if user have no permission to edit current page. How can I check if user can edit page (for example via rest api)?

Thanks!

2

Hello,

I would say the Check content permissions API ? With the operation parameter set to read.

Regards

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I recently tried to check the user’s Update permissions using this url https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-content-permissions/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-id-permission-check-post

    const requestBody = {
      subject: {
        type: "user",
        identifier: accountId
      },
      operation: "update"
    };

const response = await api.asApp().requestConfluence(route`/wiki/rest/api/content/${contentId}/permission/check`,
      {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
          'Accept': 'application/json',
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        },
        body: JSON.stringify(requestBody)
      }
    );

but I got a 401

INFO    09:32:20.174  53bcbd4c-e971-4403-996e-4e6e6514d3bf  Response: Response {
  status: 401,
  statusText: 'Unauthorized',
  headers: Headers {
    date: 'Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:32:21 GMT',
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    'content-length': '59',
    'x-trace-id': 'db5eb9608cd14b02965400ab0c64fdc4',
    'x-failure-category': 'FAILURE_CLIENT_SCOPE_CHECK',
    'x-frame-options': 'SameOrigin',

At the manifest I had already the scopes":

- read:content.permission:confluence

- read:confluence-content.permission

And also this url did not work for me in forge https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/api-group-content-restrictions/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-id-restriction-byoperation-operationkey-user-get