Is there support for PAT tokens in Discourse. There is a particular use-case we are working on that we might need PAT tokens. If yes, where can I find them?

You can create an api key assigned to a specific user and it will use the same user permissions that they have access to when logged in.

There are also (if enabled), user-provisioned API keys. [image] User API keys specification Integrations Discourse contains a system for generating API keys per user if a very specific protocol is followed. This feature facilitates “application” access to Discourse instances without needing to involve moderators. High level description At a high level: Client (desktop app, browser plugin, mobile app) generates a private/public key pair and return url Client redirects to a route on discourse giving discourse its public key Discourse gets approval from user to use app Discourse generat…

[Screenshot 2023-03-19 at 4.56.45 PM] Tried out this request but it didn’t work, am I doing something wrong here? I’m testing out things such that a webhook gets triggered when I request a user api key I’m getting a 404 error

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[image] Gokul Ks: I’m testing out things such that a webhook gets triggered when I request a user api key I don’t believe discourse has a webhook that will trigger when a “user api key” is requested. [image] Are you trying to use one of these events to trigger the webhook?

Does Discourse have support for PAT tokens?

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mattdm (Matthew Miller) March 18, 2023, 3:09pm 3

There are also (if enabled), user-provisioned API keys.

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Does Discourse have support for PAT tokens?

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