Accessing SEOmatic meta via controller action in Element API triggers HTTPForbiddenException

Question

I'm attempting to fetch SEO meta for entries inside of an element API, roughly following the advice in Element API integration

Below is the exact code in my element-api.php:

<?php

use craft\elements\Entry;

return [
    'endpoints' => [
        'api.json' => function() {
            return [
                'elementType' => Entry::class,
                'criteria' => [],
                'transformer' => function(Entry $entry) {
                    $seo = Craft::$app->runAction('seomatic/meta-container/all-meta-containers', [
                        'uri' => $entry->uri,
                        'siteId' => null,
                        'asArray' => true,
                    ])->data;

                    return $seo;
                },
            ];
        },
    ]
];

If I hit this endpoint directly in a browser - e.g. http://my-url.test/api.json - it returns a response exactly as expected. However, if I try to hit the endpoint using an external GET requestion with Accept: application/json (I'm using https://paw.cloud, specifically), I get back an error exception of yii\\web\\ForbiddenHttpException

Is there something about runAction inside of an Element API call that isn't allowed? Is there something I need to do to allow this in outside requests?

Answer 1

Probably you need to turn on the Meta Container Endpoint Access option in SEOmatic -> Plugin Settings -> Endpoints

This is intentionally disabled by default, you need to enable it if you intend to use it.

Answer 2

I ended up using the pattern described in How to pull an entry's SEOmatic meta tags with Element API? which didn't suffer from the same issue.