According to a reply by @Falco on my post , there’s a way to set users to watch categories using the API. I’ve spent hours searching the web and combing through the API documentation but I cannot find this call. Does anyone know what API call could be used to set a user to watch a specific category? …

Thanks for the reply @pfaffman . Are you suggesting the API documentation is incomplete and I need to reverse engineer the API code to find the undocumented API call?

if you don’t see what you’re looking for, it’s almost as easy to reverse engineer as use the documentation.

Have you figured out how to achieve this? Here is how to do it using jQuery Ajax for anyone interested: const data = { notification_level: 3, api_key: "all_users_api_key", api_username: "target_user_username" }; const settings = { url: "/category/{{category_id}}/notifications", method: "P…

I’m sure @Osama ’s method works, but setting user watches via the category seemed a bit weird to me. The following sets the watch list directly against the user (This is via python requests, but shows what is required). DISCOURSE_URL - domain, including http(s) username - user to change DISCOURSE_…

I’m not sure if this code can accomplish what I’m looking to do, but… I’d like to add a hyperlink that would have some kind of URL parameter that when a user clicked the link, they would be Watching/Tracking/Normal/Muted for a particular category. Practical use case would be instead of me telling …

I think this would be relatively straightforward to write as a plugin or theme component, some kind of embeddable entity which can make these actions for you. The issue with the AJAX code posted above is that you are sending the global all users API key to the client. This is totally a bad idea. …

API call to have a user watch specific category(ies)?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 4 Agosto , 2017 13:15 2

You can search for "reverse engineer api " for tips on how to figure out the API call. Also, there is a plugin that will make people in a certain group follow a set of categories.

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API call to have a user watch specific category(ies)?

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