I pull user profile data via Discourse API with the Python requests module. After my Discourse instance update to 3.4.0.beta3, certain users are shown as 'profile_hidden': True when I make the API request, even though their “hide my public profile and presence features” setting is disabled. I suspect it has to do with the update of Restricting profile visibility of low Trust level users. [Screenshot 2024-12-23 at 11.05.21 AM] How do I continue to pull user data via Discourse API? Is there a way in my API request to tell the Discourse server that I am an admin, not an anonymous user? Typing /u/{username}.json in the browser still shows all the information of the user. Thank you! :pray:

Using API-keys, your python code can access the server as any user: Create and configure an API key

User Profile Hidden in API after 3.4.0.beta3 Update

MihirR (Mihir) December 23, 2024, 7:23pm 3

When you generate the API key just make sure to select Global in Scope and it will do the work.

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