# Allow for pre-registration of fully activated accounts via API without user interaction

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-pre-registration-of-fully-activated-accounts-via-api-without-user-interaction/60339>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [3 Abril, 2017 02:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-pre-registration-of-fully-activated-accounts-via-api-without-user-interaction/60339 "2017-04-03T02:51:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nordize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c68b51/32.png) [@nordize](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nordize)\
**Post date:** [3 Abril, 2017 02:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-pre-registration-of-fully-activated-accounts-via-api-without-user-interaction/60339/1 "2017-04-03T02:51:07Z")

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Using 1.8.0.beta9. I’m doing:

`curl -d "api_key=<snip>&api_username=system&username=USER&name=USER&email=USER@example.com&password=1fe2fdd3b3939b8755a073557c74c0f5&approved=true&active=true" https://discuss.example.com`

Note the `&active=true` which according to the API docs, should get me an activated user: [Discourse API Docs](http://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Users%2Fpaths%2F~1users%2Fpost)

But it never activates the user, and it always sends an activation email, the json reply is always:

`{"success":true,"active":false,"message":"\u003cp\u003eYou're almost done! We sent an activation mail to \u003cb\u003eUSER@example.com\u003c/b\u003e. Please follow the instructions in the email to activate your account.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf it doesn't arrive, check your spam folder, or try to log in again to send another activation mail.\u003c/p\u003e","user_id":44}`

I’ve tried with `&active=1` too, no luck.

I did read other threads on here, which were saying I should activate them by doing a second API call to `/admin/users/{USER_ID}/activate.json?` but that doesn’t help me at all because the activation email was already sent … and it’s the very thing I want to avoid.

This sounds like a bug (either the code or the API docs).

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