I have been reviewing the API documentation and can not seem to find how I can edit user information other than email and avatar. For example firstname, lastname, and more importantly custom fields. [Screenshot 2020-05-30 at 22.10.02] Can someone please help. Thank you.

You can learn the API request for that using How to reverse engineer the Discourse API

This is at least twice in as many days that this has been the answer to a question. That link really needs to be at the top of the docs.

Is there any detailed solution yet for this topic @hjalali ?

Is this topic any help? [תמונה] How to change user fields with API Development (Edit: see 2nd post for solution: how to change user fields with API) @sam, you mentioned (in a post in a topic now closed) with regards to someone who wanted to use the API to update a custom field in a user record: “the field needs to be whitelisted can you add it to /admin/customize/user_fields or is this field meant to be completely hidden from users?” Two quick questions What is /admin/customize/ endpoint? How do you “whitelist” a field? (What does that mean-- whitelist it so the API can…

There is now a message on docs.discourse.org: Note: For any endpoints not listed you can follow the reverse engineer the Discourse API guide to figure out how to use an API endpoint. But we’ll try to update it from time to time to make it more complete. @philipp96, did you have a look at Reverse engineer the Discourse API? Understanding how such an action is done is very easy. It’s a matter of seconds, literally, once you’ve learned how to do it. :slight_smile: For the custom field question: Open the network tab of your dev tools in your browser. Update a field in your user profile Look at [your username].json in the “Name” section of the network tab (you can also filter by the string json) Click the Payload tab on the right All the data sent in the body of your request is written here: [image] It’s the same process for other requests.

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hjalali (Hossein Jalali) 31 במאי,‏ 2020,‏ 9:42am 4

I agree, if there is a docs document it is kind of assumed it is complete and if not it would be good to mention it.

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