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

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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?

Thank you.

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.

3

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?

4

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

5

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: "POST",
  data: data
};

$.ajax(settings).done(response => {
  console.log(response);
});
6

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_API_KEY - api key generated by, and associated with a user
DISCOURSE_API_USERNAME - user who the key is associated with
watch_category - a list of categories the user should be watching

requests.request(‘PUT’, ‘{0}/u/{1}.json’.format(DISCOURSE_URL, username), allow_redirects=False, params={“api_key”:DISCOURSE_API_KEY, “api_username”: DISCOURSE_API_USERNAME}, json={‘watched_category_ids’: [watch_category]}, headers={‘Accept’: ‘application/json; charset=utf-8’})

@SwisherSweet if you end up opening a bug against the docs for missing info on how to modify the watch list/user prefs do post back here with it.

7

我不确定这段代码能否实现我的目标，但……

我想添加一个超链接，该链接包含某种 URL 参数。当用户点击该链接时，他们会被设置为针对特定类别的“观看/跟踪/正常/静音”状态。

实际应用场景是：与其告诉用户“访问该类别……点击铃铛图标并选择_____

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我认为将其编写为插件或主题组件（某种可嵌入的实体，能够为您执行这些操作）相对简单。上述 AJAX 代码的问题在于，您向客户端发送了全局所有用户的 API 密钥。这绝对是个糟糕的做法。

正如原帖所述，您创建链接时会遇到的问题在于：API 调用需要 REST POST 操作，而链接只能发起 REST GET 操作。