Title: Get drafts?
Last modified: October 3, 2016

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# Get drafts?

 *  [zaszombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaszombie/)
 * (@zaszombie)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-drafts/)
 * Hello,
 * I need to check if a posts exist, for that i need to check if the post exists
   as draft.
    So how can i get the drafts through the Rest API?
 * I tried
    [https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?status=draft](https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?status=draft)
   but i only receive an “rest_invalid_param” and “Invalid Parameter(s)” response.
   Greetings
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [zaszombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaszombie/).
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [zaszombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaszombie/).

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 *  Thread Starter [zaszombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zaszombie/)
 * (@zaszombie)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-drafts/#post-8246850)
 * Here the exact response i reveice:
    {“code”:”rest_invalid_param”,”message”:”Invalid
   Parameter(s): status”,”data”:{“status”:400,”params”:{“status”:”Status is forbidden”}}}
 *  [Shaun Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubious/)
 * (@rubious)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-drafts/#post-8261934)
 * You can only get draft posts if you’re authenticated as a user who has access
   to those drafts, see here: [http://v2.wp-api.org/guide/authentication/](http://v2.wp-api.org/guide/authentication/)

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