# Permissions

The user account that you use to retrieve information from Confluence must be granted the following permissions:

- View access to all of the files in the Confluence Spaces that you want to index.

- Space Administrator permission on the Spaces that you want to index, if you want to use Mapped Security.

To retrieve information from a cloud-hosted instance of Confluence, the REST API must be enabled.

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