Frank_Bailey is trying to approve 17,500 users created via the Discourse API, but they are stuck in a “pending” state. Although the API calls had “approved” set to “true”, the users were not actually approved. Frank_Bailey wants to know if there’s an API endpoint to approve the users in bulk, rather than doing it manually.
After some research, Frank_Bailey found a solution, thanks to a helpful topic zogstrip shared. The solution involves using a specific syntax to approve the users via the API.
I have created 17500 users via the Discourse API and uploaded all user avatars with the help of some very nice people here on Meta Discourse. All these users are in a “pending” state, and I would like to approve these users in bulk via the API. However, I only see an API endpoint to “activate” a user. As all my users are already active (but not approved) my question is, can I approve the users via the API, or must approval be done manually by the screenfull in the admin backend of Discourse? 17500 users will be a lot to have to approve manually.
I must also mention here that my user creation calls already had “approved” set to “true”, however this did not actually set the users to the approved state on creation.
