'lo. We’re using hosted discourse with OAuth. We suddenly realized that when we process deletions, we’re neglecting to delete from our discourse instance. I’d like to be able to anonymize an account, OR delete an account programmatically using the API – but I don’t see an easy way to do that, giv…

[image] aahoughton: I’d like to be able to anonymize an account, OR delete an account programmatically using the API – but I don’t see an easy way to do that, given that I don’t know what the discourse account ID is. Do you know if email addresses match between your OAuth identity provider an…

They should match, thank you – that was the call I was missing. Verifying.

I am also interested in using an api call to anonymize a user. What is the API endpoint you are using to anonymize a user?

The API endpoint for anonymizing: HTTP Method: PUT Endpoint: https://example-community.dev/admin/users/{id}/anonymize [image] Anonymize user - blank response from API on attempt? dev Hi folks, I’m trying to hit the endpoint to anonymize a user in Discourse; I’ve got sin…

Was the /anonymize endpoint removed form the API docs? I was looking here: https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Admin/paths/~1admin~1users~1{id}.json/get Under users as well as admin.

@sarahann the /anonymize route has been added to the api docs.

Phew! Scared me for a sec :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks for the speedy turnaround on this!

API / anonymize or delete

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blake (Blake Erickson) July 28, 2021, 1:03am 7

It might not have been added to the api docs yet, I’ll make sure it gets documented soon.

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