I used to use the rest api to update the owners of groups. This now seems to have stopped working (though the groups definitely exist): Method: PUT, RequestUri: 'https://forums.mysite.uk/admin/groups/1949/owners', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.FormUrlEncodedContent, Headers: { Api-Key: Api-Username: admin Accept: application/json User-Agent: BasecampGatewayLive Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded }:{ "group": { "usernames": "kay" } } StatusCode: 404, ReasonPhrase: 'Not Found', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionResponseContent, Headers: { Server: nginx/1.22.1 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:03:44 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding Vary: Accept X-Request-ID: 8e5dcf66-c4e0-4d4f-a382-dacb774691c3 X-Runtime: 0.004369 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 } {"errors":["The requested URL or resource could not be found."],"error_type":"not_found"} This used to work fine, but a Discourse upgrade seems to have broken it. As this api is not included in the Discourse API page, I’m not sure how to find out what has changed.

I found the issue: [image] Nikki Locke: https://forums.mysite.uk/admin/groups/1949/owners The correct URL is https://forums.mysite.uk/groups/1949/owners, without the /admin/.

[image] Nikki Locke: As this api is not included in the Discourse API page Many endpoints aren’t documented, but you can Reverse engineer the Discourse API easily. For me, the request works on the latest Discourse version: [This image shows an API response interface displaying a successful JSON output with an "OK" status and a message indicating users named "coco" have been found. (Captioned by AI)]

My guess is that your API key is no longer valid.

I thought about that, but an invalid key or username normally returns a 403, not a 404 :person_shrugging:

[image] Nikki Locke: application/x-www-form-urlencoded [image] Nikki Locke: { "group": { "usernames": "kay" } } You’ll also want to tell the server you’re sending json, not a form.

Rest API to add owners has stopped working

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Nikki_Locke (Nikki Locke) April 14, 2025, 11:14am 7

I just noticed I hadn’t thanked everyone for solving my problem. Sorry, and many thanks!

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