Hello :waving_hand:, I’m making a GitHub action posting to the Discourse forum. I found the post API, however, the document says Discourse users need to create an API Key from the admin panel , even though non-admin users have no admin panel. Here I have several questions: Is the API key designed…

Hello @KengoTODA , welcome here! :slight_smile: :wave: User API keys specification will be helpful for what you have described.

Thank you! I’ve checked the ‘API key generation flow’ part. I understood that it’s for web applications that can provide auth_redirect URL. Is there any recommended way for CLI or GitHub Actions?

For CLI programs, if this is necessary, you can launch a local web server and use a http://localhost:XXXXX/callback URL. The app does something similar.

OK I’ll have a try, thanks for your support!

You can create an user API following Generate User API Keys for testing

I’m working in this branch , and successfully run the command using localhost as redirect URL. However, after I click the button to authorize, the page https://meta.discourse.org/user-api-key reported a JS error and it could not proceed the operation. The ruby script works but it also fails when I ad…

I’m investigating this issue. The JS throws an error, because the POST method for /user-api-key returns 403 and build_not_found_page method in the controller does not invoke the preload_anonymous_data method that stores preloaded value. It’s not sure why the server responded 403 with <h1 class="t…

You need to add the domain (and path) to the allowed user api auth redirects site setting. If you’re manually issuing HTTP requests, then discourse://auth_redirect should work.

Thanks, I found the config in the site_settings.yml and understood why my request met 403. The discourse://auth_redirect does not work as expected to me, so I’ll try to ask users to input the encrypted token manually, just like the ruby code .

Can non-admin user issue their own API key?

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blake (Blake Erickson) December 14, 2020, 6:03pm 4

If this is for a GitHub Action you will probably be better off creating a scoped api key, that only allows the actions you need, but yes you will need to be an admin to create this key.

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Can non-admin user issue their own API key?

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