I see discussion about setting notification_level via the API. What about reading values? For example, I can set a value with: PUT {{base_url}}/category/14/notifications.json?api_key={{api_key}}&api_username={{api_username}}&notification_level=3 How can I read that same value back?

Normally reversing out the API has worked for me, but for some reason this time I don’t see it. From a user’s profile page (/u/user_name/summary) I see the /u/user_name/summary.json payload, but don’t see anything in there about notification_level’s there. Clicking on the Preferences tab loads /us…

A GET to https://meta.discourse.org/categories.json contains: { "category_list": { "categories": [ { "notification_level": 1, ... }, ] } }

It finally occurred to me: /categories.json > notification_level is for the logged in user. I took that to be the default notification_level for the category, which of course categories don’t have. Thanks, @Falco !

So … by this approach, that means getting a given user’s /categories.json > notification_level requires this update to the client object? client.api_username = @each_users_username One cannot just do something like so without changing the client.api_username value?: client.categories(api_username…

API GET for Category User notification_level

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sam (Sam Saffron) February 21, 2019, 7:47am 2

Have a look at How to reverse engineer the Discourse API visit your profile page on the tab that shows it, its in one of the user json payloads.

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API GET for Category User notification_level

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