Approving an already-existing user through API?

[Frank_Bailey]

I have created 17500 users via the Discourse API and uploaded all user avatars with the help of some very nice people here on Meta Discourse. All these users are in a “pending” state, and I would like to approve these users in bulk via the API. However, I only see an API endpoint to “activate” a user. As all my users are already active (but not approved) my question is, can I approve the users via the API, or must approval be done manually by the screenfull in the admin backend of Discourse? 17500 users will be a lot to have to approve manually.

Thanks in advance!

[Frank_Bailey]

I must also mention here that my user creation calls already had “approved” set to “true”, however this did not actually set the users to the approved state on creation.

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

@Frank_Bailey

can I approve the users via the API, or must approval be done manually by the screenfull in the admin backend of Discourse?

This topic might come handy

Reverse engineer the Discourse API

Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. 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: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select XHR filter: [image] Perform the op…

[Frank_Bailey]

Thanks, that was an interesting read and very helpful.

For anyone finding this topic on the Googles, this is the syntax I used: