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May 5, 2026
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AEM Cloud Service — Sling POST Servlet returns 403 "The access token is missing required scopes" with OAuth Server-to-Server credential

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 Environment
  - AEM as a Cloud Service (Author) - RDE
  - Adobe App Builder / Adobe I/O Runtime (Server-to-Server OAuth credential)
  - Node.js action using Axios to call AEM APIs

What I'm trying to do

I'm building an App Builder action that creates AEM Sites pages programmatically using the Sling POST Servlet. I have created another action already that creates and updates Content Fragments via the CF Management API(/adobe/sites/cf/fragments) which is working fine.

For page creation, I'm POSTing to the page path with application/x-www-form-urlencoded:

  POST /content/… (content path under which the PDP pages must be created)
  Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  Authorization: Bearer <IMS token>

  _charset_=UTF-8&jcr%3AprimaryType=cq%3APage&jcr%…......

The error

  Every request to the Sling POST Servlet returns:

  {
    "type": "https://api.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/meta/errors/forbidden",
    "title": "Forbidden",
    "status": 403,
    "detail": "The access token is missing required scopes."
  }

  Current credential scopes

  The Developer Console project has these APIs added:
  - Content Fragment Management API → scope: aem.fragments.management
  - AEM Folders API → scope: aem.folders

Product Profiles : AEM Sites Content Managers - author

Full scope string in use: openid,AdobeID,aem.fragments.management,aem.folders

My Questions:

1. What is the correct IMS scope required to call the Sling POST Servlet on /content/... paths with a Server-to-Server credential?

2. Is there an alternative OpenAPI endpoint for programmatic page creation that works with Server-to-Server credentials and the scopes currently available?

Thanks in advance!

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manav
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
May 6, 2026

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