# Can I use the Discourse API to authenticate users in another app?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-the-discourse-api-to-authenticate-users-in-another-app/266322>\
**Category:** SSO\
**Created:** [May 26, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-the-discourse-api-to-authenticate-users-in-another-app/266322 "2023-05-26T14:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-use-the-discourse-api-to-authenticate-users-in-another-app/266322/18 "2023-06-01T22:07:21Z")

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By auth-proxy, I mean this: [GitHub - discourse/discourse-auth-proxy: An http proxy that uses the DiscourseConnect protocol to authenticate users · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-auth-proxy)

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