Disqus owner cannot close threads.

closethread.py

>>> PUBLIC_KEY = 'TkhL2k0lvpvb5KIiN8l0E1tcMAEguAXy8rPOheJfwkjUGdrWLZSJIr2Mv2Dnyhy1'
>>> SECRET_KEY = 'notmykey'
>>> ACCESS_TOKEN = 'alsonotmykey'

>>> disqus = DisqusAPI(SECRET_KEY, PUBLIC_KEY)
>>> disqus.users.details(access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN)
{'favicon': {'cache': 'https://securecdn.disqus.com/1373918630/images/favicon-default.png',
             'permalink': 'https://disqus.com/api/forums/favicons/transformbusiness.jpg'},
 'founder': '61541387',
 'id': 'transformbusiness',
 'language': 'en',
 'name': 'Transform Business',
 'settings': {'allowAnonPost': False,
              'allowMedia': True,
              'audienceSyncEnabled': False,
              'backplaneEnabled': False,
              'hasReactions': True,
              'ssoRequired': False},
 'url': 'http://www.transformbusiness.sg/'}
>>> pprint.pprint(disqus.users.details(access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN)[0])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 0
>>> pprint.pprint(disqus.users.details(access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN))
{'about': u'',
 'avatar': {'cache': 'https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/users/6154/1387/avatar92.jpg?1373853311',
            'isCustom': False,
            'large': {'cache': 'https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/users/6154/1387/avatar92.jpg?1373853311',
                      'permalink': 'https://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/white_space.jpg'},
            'permalink': 'https://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/white_space.jpg',
            'small': {'cache': 'https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/users/6154/1387/avatar32.jpg?1373853311',
                      'permalink': 'https://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/white_space.jpg'}},
 'connections': {'facebook': {'id': '764987588',
                              'name': 'Hwee En Tan',
                              'url': 'http://www.facebook.com/hweeentan'}},
 'emailHash': '4713bb34b33f72169fa18b35fa178c06',
 'id': '61541387',
 'isAnonymous': False,
 'isFollowedBy': False,
 'isFollowing': False,
 'isPrimary': True,
 'isPrivate': False,
 'joinedAt': '2013-07-10T01:02:57',
 'location': u'',
 'name': 'white_space',
 'numFollowers': 0,
 'numFollowing': 0,
 'numLikesReceived': 0,
 'numPosts': 10,
 'profileUrl': 'http://disqus.com/white_space/',
 'rep': 1.235445,
 'reputation': 1.235445,
 'url': u'',
 'username': 'white_space'}
>>> disqus.users.listForums(access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN)
{'favicon': {'cache': 'https://securecdn.disqus.com/1373918630/images/favicon-default.png',
             'permalink': 'https://disqus.com/api/forums/favicons/transformbusiness.jpg'},
 'founder': '61541387',
 'id': 'transformbusiness',
 'language': 'en',
 'name': 'Transform Business',
 'settings': {'allowAnonPost': False,
              'allowMedia': True,
              'audienceSyncEnabled': False,
              'backplaneEnabled': False,
              'hasReactions': True,
              'ssoRequired': False},
 'url': 'http://www.transformbusiness.sg/'}
 >>> disqus.forums.listThreads(forum='transformbusiness', access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN)[0]
{'author': '61541387',
 'category': '2475656',
 'createdAt': '2013-07-12T10:16:42',
 'dislikes': 0,
 'feed': 'http://transformbusiness.disqus.com/discussion_transform_business_41/latest.rss',
 'forum': 'transformbusiness',
 'id': '1493000506',
 'identifiers': [],
 'isClosed': False,
 'isDeleted': False,
 'likes': 0,
 'link': 'http://www.transformbusiness.sg/event-discussion.html',
 'message': u'',
 'posts': 0,
 'reactions': 0,
 'slug': 'discussion_transform_business_41',
 'title': 'Discussion - Transform Business',
 'userScore': 0,
 'userSubscription': False}
 >>> disqus.threads.close(thread='1493000506', forum='transformbusiness', access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN))
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/kitsunde/.virtualenvs/fujixerox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/disqusapi/__init__.py", line 87, in __call__
    return self._request(**kwargs)
  File "/Users/kitsunde/.virtualenvs/fujixerox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/disqusapi/__init__.py", line 142, in _request
    raise ERROR_MAP.get(data['code'], APIError)(data['code'], data['response'])
disqusapi.APIError: 22: You do not have admin privileges on thread '1493000506'

In my case this was because my access token did not have "Manage Forums" permission. I was using app's access token and by default it has only "Read, Write" permission. I had to change default permissions of the app first to include all permissions, and then it worked.