Hello, I added a new watch-by-default category and have to add it to the watching list of all existing accounts. I have not found a correponding API call in our How-to: Discourse REST API Documentation I am also looking for an API call to add given tags to the watch list for a given account. All …

You might want to take a look at this: [image] Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature I just noticed this discourse plugin: It appears to be by @techAPJ - can you confirm this works and can you give any guidance on configuration? If so…

Based on the plugin, I wrote a ruby snippet to execute in the rails console (get a shell in your docker using ./launcher enter app and then rails c). # based on https://github.com/discourse/discourse-watch-category-mcneel/blob/master/plugin.rb # let a group watch or watch_first_post a category gr…

The same for tags, but yet untested: # based on https://github.com/discourse/discourse-watch-category-mcneel/blob/master/plugin.rb # watch tag group_name = "trust_level_0" tag_name = "newstag" group = Group.find_by_name(group_name) tag = Tag.find_by_name(tag_name) unless tag.nil? || group.nil? …

I’m interested in this as well. Any way to request category/tag watching from the API or a plugin client-side code?

Here is something related: [image] How to create a 'follow' button for a topic and post it on an external website? WordPress You can set a user’s notification level for a topic through the API. You’ll need to generate an API key for the user first, and then mak…

API call to watch categories and tags

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Jane_Polly_Macky (Jane Polly Macky) December 12, 2018, 10:36pm 5

Any further testing or implementation / use of this? I’m looking for a way to ‘opt’ users in to watch tags

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API call to watch categories and tags

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