# Create and Update Contact API

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/create-and-update-contact-api/76623>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** oauth, contacts\
**Created:** [March 7, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/create-and-update-contact-api/76623 "2023-03-07T12:58:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ADemo7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@ADemo7](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ADemo7)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/create-and-update-contact-api/76623/1 "2023-03-07T12:58:48Z")

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| {“status”:“error”,“message”:“This oauth-token (CLjU2-H) does not have proper permissions! (requires all of [users-read])”,“correlationId”:“129580f5-a73e-4f5a-b6f3-e55b4851e3d1”} |
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I am getting above error when i try to create or update a contact saying you need user-read permissions but i see there is no scope saying user-read

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**Author:** ![Jaycee\_Lewis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jaycee_lewis/32/61352_2.png) [@Jaycee\_Lewis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jaycee_Lewis)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/create-and-update-contact-api/76623/2 "2023-03-07T23:05:45Z")

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Hi, @ADemo7 👋 I have a few requests to help the community understand your issue. Can you add an example request and response that returns this error, please? Additionally, can you go to your app settings and search in scopes for “settings.users”?

 ![CleanShot 2023-03-07 at 16.01.32.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/7/d753d13db956e166d7514869f2c92725513a46be.png)

Thanks! — Jaycee