API / anonymize or delete

[simon]

@aahoughton

I’d like to be able to anonymize an account, OR delete an account programmatically using the API – but I don’t see an easy way to do that, given that I don’t know what the discourse account ID is.

Do you know if email addresses match between your OAuth identity provider and Discourse? If they do, you could get the Discourse user based on their email address by making an authenticated API request to /admin/users/list/all.json?email=<users_email_address>. For example:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:3000/admin/users/list/all.json?email=bob@example.com" \
-H "Api-Key: $api_key" \
-H "Api-Username: system"