# API feature request for additonal info about external accounts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-feature-request-for-additonal-info-about-external-accounts/136248
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [December 16, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-feature-request-for-additonal-info-about-external-accounts/136248 "2019-12-16T20:26:49Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-feature-request-for-additonal-info-about-external-accounts/136248/2 "2019-12-17T10:44:06Z")

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Everything is in the API. Search “reverse engineered api”. I guess you want the discord id in a user custom field?

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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