# Invite users to the team by email with API SYNTAX

**URL:** <https://forum.mattermost.com/t/invite-users-to-the-team-by-email-with-api-syntax/6256>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/invite-users-to-the-team-by-email-with-api-syntax/6256 "2018-11-30T11:22:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![alfador](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@alfador](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/alfador)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/invite-users-to-the-team-by-email-with-api-syntax/6256/1 "2018-11-30T11:22:39Z")

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[https://your-mattermost-url.com/api/v4/teams/{team\_id}/invite/email](https://your-mattermost-url.com/api/v4/teams/%7Bteam_id%7D/invite/email)

Hello guyss, what is the correct syntax of that request with curl?

I tried that but it doesn’t work:  
curl -H "Authorization Bearer: XXXXX-X POST -d ‘{“[ivan.hristov@mlosa.com](mailto:ivan.hristov@mlosa.com)”}’ [xxxxx.com](https://mattermost.xxxxxx.com/api/v4/teams/fcubhxets3bi5c11txm3gga98a/members/invite)

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**Author:** ![amy.blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/amy.blais/32/7481_2.png) [@amy.blais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/amy.blais)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/invite-users-to-the-team-by-email-with-api-syntax/6256/2 "2018-11-30T15:22:44Z")

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Hi @alfador,

What error message are you getting?

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**Author:** ![amy.blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/amy.blais/32/7481_2.png) [@amy.blais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/amy.blais)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/invite-users-to-the-team-by-email-with-api-syntax/6256/3 "2018-11-30T15:27:14Z")

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@alfador, based on your other Forum post, it looks like you’re getting a permission error.

You’ll need to have `invite_to_team` permission for the team. Is this setting enabled on your server: [https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#enable-email-invitations](https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#enable-email-invitations)?