Is it possible to send a private message through the API?

It appears you may only view direct (private) messages, not create them. The API repository @ GitHub shows only viewing abilities (GET). Why do you want to create a private message via API? What is your scenario for wanting this feature?

You can create them. URL structure is sorta like this: http://discourse.example.com/posts?api_key=abc123&api_username=system&archetype=private_message&title=title&raw=message&target_usernames=username1,username2 Send a private message and with Chrome developer tools watch the Network tab. (You can learn a lot of neat functionality doing that.)

The API key can be used via URL? That doesn’t sound safe. The API + curl allows something to be posted at the server level, bypassing the client/browser layer, which is safer than exposing the API key via html link. Someone only needs to check the dev tools as you did and grab it. However, this depends on what exactly @Stackfish wants this for.

A PM is just a type of post, you can create a PM just fine using the API. In fact we are using the API on this very site to create PMs. PM stands for personal message by the way

But via URL or curl? A URL would expose the API key, correct?

[תמונה] purldator: A URL would expose the API key, correct? Only if it’s transported over unsecured HTTP, in which case an intercepting observer could have grabbed the form data anyways.

@AdamCapriola Thanks that’s a cool trick and that should meet my needs. @purldator The reason I’m looking into this is that we are using Discourse as the forum for a larger community. We would like to use discourse as the primary mechanism for messaging and alerts within in our community. For example, it would be really cool if Stackfish could send a notification (or private message) every time one of our user’s gets a buddy request or one of their stories in liked. These notifications would be system generated. Thanks to everyone!

Is this a POST or a GET? I tried sending this as a GET and I receive a 200 response but no message is created. Does this still work?

I just needed to send the request as a POST

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sam (Sam Saffron) 15 באפריל,‏ 2015,‏ 11:49pm 7

Via Discourse api gem or curl or whatever.

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