Hey everyone, Just wondering if it’s possible to enable/disable theme components via API. It seems like there was a way to do it, but there is no mention of it in current Discourse API Documentation. The clue of such possibility was given by ChatGPT, and yeah, I certainly know this is far from a reliable source of information. I just wonder if this is achievable in any remote way, and the fairy tale ChatGPT told me sounds perfect, but doesn’t work. API returns 404 for admin users’s API credentials. [Screenshot 2023-02-28 at 16.15.29@2x] Asking ChatGPT to refer to the source of it's information on this request [Screenshot 2023-02-28 at 16.15.38@2x] ChatGPT apologizes for mistake... [image]

My guess is ChatGPT just made it all up. :rofl: So as you can see, we aren’t all out of a job yet. :stuck_out_tongue: There’s no concept of “enabling” or “disabling” a Theme Component, you simply add or remove it from a parent theme. EDIT: incorrect, see @Canapin’s post below! ChatGPT made it all up. got the wrong end point and body. Using the browsers network tab, I can see that adding a Theme Component to a parent theme called a PUT /admin/themes/ (id of component) With payload something like: parent_theme_ids: [ ] I didn’t make that up, I just looked at the Network tab on my browser :nerd_face: You are welcome

Sounds like it. But doesn’t seem to be accessible via external API, though… Thank you anyway

That’s from a browser, it must be. Make sure your key has the correct authority (single user, global scope).

[image] Robert: There’s no concept of “enabling” or “disabling” a Theme Component The concept exists and the buttons are called “Enable” and “Disable” in Discourse’s interface :slight_smile: [image] [image] And it can be done through the API, of course: [image] Set Theme Dynamically Development Sorry for the long wait. Busy day technologist So, you can indeed enable or disable a theme or a component with a simple API request. You’ll have to create an API key with the right credentials and assign an admin user to it. in your Discourse: admin panel → API → + New API Key in the script you’ll use, as mentioned, do a PUT request on https://yourdiscourse.com/admin/themes/[id_theme] with the proper headers (see the authentication part on https://docs.discourse.org/) and a JSON body … I’m talking about both themes AND components in my post but apparently it’s a bit different for themes, so I should fix my solution.

Oh! My bad! Well done! :blush: Those buttons are too far down :wink: But ChatGPT still got it wrong :slight_smile: Amended my post accordingly. @kinetiksoft so sorry, see above, possible but not how ChatGPT was telling you.

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merefield (Robert) March 1, 2023, 11:56pm 6

Oh! My bad! Well done! Those buttons are too far down

But ChatGPT still got it wrong

Amended my post accordingly. @kinetiksoft so sorry, see above, possible but not how ChatGPT was telling you.

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