Is there a way to assign via API? I don’t see it in the docs, but I would love to be surprised :slight_smile: Edit: looks like I’ll be trying to reverse engineer it !

The Discourse Assign exposes these API endpoints: Assign (PUT /assign/assign.json) Required parameters: target_id - The topic or post ID target_type - Either "Topic" or "Post" Plus one of: username - Username to assign to group_name - Group name to assign to Optional parameters: note - Assi…

First of all, our goal is to have a stable API, it is a multi year effort to get there, but it is certainly a place we want to get. In the meant time a reasonable 2025 trick you can use is lean on AI agents to figure this stuff out: This shows how you can lean on our GitHub helper to answer the qu…

Did you figure this out? If so, can you share your learning here?

Hey! Not yet! This project got bumped back for something more pressing, but I’ll be back on it next week :slight_smile:

@tobiaseigen this works for me using node js var https = require(‘https’); // Configuration var CONFIG = { apiUrl: ‘YOURDISCOURSEDOMAIN’, apiKey: ‘YOURAPIKEY’, apiUsername: ‘YOURAPIUSER’, assignToUsername: ‘USERNAMETOASSIGNTO’ // Username to assign topics to }; // Topic IDs to assign var topicId…

How do I assign a topic via the API

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opcourdis December 28, 2025, 1:36am 7

Thanks for sharing nice to so see we can include all those parameters

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How do I assign a topic via the API

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