# Changing a user's email address via api
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027 "2016-03-14T16:43:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@paully21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paully21)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/1 "2016-03-14T16:43:27Z")
We have a section on our website that allows users to manage their Discourse account preferences. Most of our users only use Discourse as a sort of mailing list, so we made it easy for them to manage that activity within their website account.
I need to be able to modify the user’s email address via an api call. We do all sorts of stuff with api calls now, but I can’t figure out how to change the email address.
I’m guessing I need the update action of the `UsersEmailController` ([https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/controllers/users\_email\_controller.rb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/controllers/users_email_controller.rb)) but I don’t know how to reach that endpoint.
Does anyone know the URL of the endpoint to change a user’s email address (using the api key and api username method)?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/2 "2016-03-14T16:46:59Z")
Did you try:
`PUT https://meta.discourse.org/users/falco/preferences/email`
with `email` parameter?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/3 "2016-03-14T16:48:41Z")
> [@paully21](#):
>
> Does anyone know the URL of the endpoint to change a user’s email address (using the api key and api username method)?
If you look at the [`routes.rb`](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/config/routes.rb#L296) file you will see this line
```ruby
put "users/:username/preferences/email" => "users_email#update", constraints: {username: USERNAME_ROUTE_FORMAT}
```
which means you need to `PUT https://your.discourse.org/users//preferences/email`
_Got ninja-ed by @Falco 😉_
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### Author:  [@paully21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paully21)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/4 "2016-03-14T16:49:08Z")
Yep…And I got a 200 OK, but it didn’t change the email address in Discourse.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/5 "2016-03-14T16:50:13Z")
Looks like it send an e-mail for confirmation! Did you get one 📧 ?
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### Author:  [@paully21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paully21)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/6 "2016-03-14T16:52:19Z")
It does send a confirmation…Ah…So it works and I had it correct. I guess I’m not going crazy.
Now, is there a way to _not_ send the confirmation and just confirm it straight away?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/7 "2016-03-14T16:54:04Z")
> [@paully21](#):
>
> Now, is there a way to not send the confirmation and just confirm it straight away?
I don’t think so, unless you wanna mess without the api.
But confirmations are good to stop typos!
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### Author:  [@paully21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paully21)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/8 "2016-03-14T17:05:58Z")
Cool…Thanks for all the help!
Paul
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/9 "2018-12-28T07:13:51Z")
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-a-users-email-address-via-api/41027/10 "2018-12-28T17:45:32Z")