I am building a desktop application, with accompanying forum (running Discourse, of course) and website. On our website, I would like to show some extra information if the website visitor is also logged in to the forum. I figured out how to login from the website or desktop application (see this post) , but what I cannot find is a way to check if my website visitor is logged in (and if so, who he is), without actually asking them to login. Is there a way to do that, e.g. using the Discourse API?

[image] Lillian : i think you may need to get the user ID from the SSO payload If the user logs in on the forum website, then how can I later get the SSO payload? I know how to get it when I initiate the login myself (by generating a link {forum_url}/session/sso_provider?sso=... etc), but when the user initiates the login, then I have no idea how I could get the SSO payload. [image] Lillian : and then use a Discourse API request get the username and current login status. That should indeed be possible, although the exact URL for the API request doesn’t seem to be documented in https://docs.discourse.org. What would be the correct URL?

i’m not sure but i suspect you need to access the user_auth_token from the json data of the payload? just a guess to give you ideas. perhaps someone who knows more about Discourse connect SSO can help you.

How can I check in my website if the user is logged in to my Discourse?

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Lilly (Lillian ) May 31, 2023, 4:02pm 2

i think you may need to get the user ID from the SSO payload and then use a Discourse API request get the username and current login status.

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How can I check in my website if the user is logged in to my Discourse?

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