How can I retrieve a draft post?

const wp = new WP({
        endpoint: endpoint,
        username: username,
        password: password
});

wp.posts().filter({status: 'any'}).embed().id(id).then(function(data) {
    console.log(data)
})

When I try to retrieve an post that is set to draft, I’m unable to retrieve the post. When I log the error, i got a 403 permission error.

error: 
      { [Error: cannot GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/631?_embed=true (403)]
        status: 403,
        text: '{"code":"rest_forbidden","message":"You don\'t have permission to do this.","data":{"status":403}}',
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/631?_embed=true' },

The user credential i sent to WP is a user with Admin privilege.

Thank you so much for your help!

[yongzhihuang]

Figured it out. I have to chain

.param({
        status: 'draft'
})

to the request!

[motleydev]

Hi @kadamwhite, I am using this exact function chain wp.posts().auth().param( 'context', 'edit' ).param( 'status', 'draft' ) to fetch drafts and I keep getting this error message:

{ code: 'rest_invalid_param',
  message: 'Invalid parameter(s): status',
  data: { status: 400, params: { status: 'Status is forbidden.' } } }

My auth works because I can create posts just fine AND I can see the drafts (that my user created), just fetching drafts is the issue.