I wish to add and remove group owners using the API. This is not documented in the api docs. Tracing the calls while logged in as admin, make user owner is PUT groups/<gid>/owners with a payload of usernames=nikkilocke(note no admin!) Remove user from owners is DELETE admin/groups/<gid>/owners w…

[image] Nikki_Locke: goup I assume that that’s a typo and not the cause of your error?

[image] Nikki_Locke: I wish to add and remove group owners using the API. This is not documented in the api docs. The best and surest documentation for the API is Reverse engineer the Discourse API [image] Nikki_Locke: the add owners entry point in the source code gives a 404 error. A…

As I said in the original post, 3 out of the 4 possibilities work fine (with the same API key).

[image] Nikki_Locke: As I said in the original post, 3 out of the 4 possibilities work fine Ah. Sorry. The “OK” at the end of the line was somehow too subtle for me to follow. When I add an owner, I see this PUT request https://example.com/groups/75/owners.json with usernames= pfaffman123 in…

Cannot fathom the API for adding and removing group owners

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) September 23, 2025, 1:58pm 6

@Nikki_Locke were you able to resolve your issue?

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Cannot fathom the API for adding and removing group owners

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