# API POST for New User
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676 "2020-04-20T22:53:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@waffleslop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/waffleslop)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676/21 "2020-04-22T16:00:38Z")
I’m stuck and don’t know if this is merely my own error, if I’m receiving a false positive, or something else.
When I do a POST request via Postman, I get a SUCCESS message:
`https://site.co/users.json?Api-Key=12345abcde12345&Api-Username=system&email=name@email.co&group_names=Alumni&custom_message=Welcome321`
Message:
```
{
"success": true,
"active": false,
"message": "You’re almost done! We sent an activation mail to name@email.co. Please follow the instructions in the mail to activate your account.
If it doesn’t arrive, check your spam folder.
"
}
```
However, when I check my inbox, I have no notification. Nothing in my `/logs`, no user.
In an attempt to troubleshoot, I do a simple GET request:
`https://site.co/admin/email.json?Api-Key=12345abcde12345&Api-Username=system`
I get no success reply. The reply is ` ...`
So I manually go to [https://site.co/admin/email.json](https://site.co/admin/email.json) and see:
`{"delivery_method":"smtp","settings":[{"name":"address","value":"smtp.sendgrid.net"},{"name":"port","value":2525},{"name":"user_name","value":"apikey"},{"name":"authentication","value":"plain"},{"name":"enable_starttls_auto","value":true}]}`
Any ideas what I can try? My outcome is being able to invite a new user, added to a Group, via Webhook/POST.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676/22 "2020-04-23T12:48:55Z")
You’ll need to move the API key into the header.
A long time ago I solved what I think is your problem by creating, deactivating, and activating the user.
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### Author:  [@neounix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neounix)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676/23 "2020-04-23T13:00:43Z")
> [@waffleslop](#):
>
Your script is Javascript (jQuery). Using `type="application/json"` is generally for JSON in the script not Javascript. Here is an example:
```plaintext
```
My understanding is your script tags should look like this:
```plaintext
```
For Javascript, you don’t need to specify `type="javascript"` anymore, as this was made obsolete a while back.
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