I’m kicking around the idea of building a webhook+api bridge service to connect given categories on two different discourse forums. The rough idea would be: A webhook on each server for Topic and Post events [1] A listener which takes these and replicates the event on the opposite server via the AP…

[image] Matthew Miller: But, is there a way to create a staged user from the API? I don’t see that in Discourse API Docs . and possibly also Like and Solved events, but not in the first cut :right_arrow_curving_left:︎ I definitely thought about this before writing out this list …

Well, kind of. As the OP in that topic says, in reply to that… [image] Creating a staged user with an API call I’m trying to avoid creating a full-fledged user account and picking a username. Essentially I want to replicate whatever is happening in the email trigger (‘custom incoming email addre…

If passing staged: true to the admin user create call doesn’t work, I suspect we’d be open to a PR to enable that. (It’s somewhat of a niche feature outside of your use case I think?) Perhaps you could use the handle_mail route to post a fake email as the user? (Oh, as @blake suggests ) That would…

[image] Matthew Miller: the answer is to basically inject an email and let the email handling code take care of it. With this approach it’s going to look as though users have created topics and replies via email. Staged users can only create posts via email. You’ll get an invalid access error…

I’ve been wanting to use discourse as a generic form processor to handle contact forms. I hate contact forms, but some users would rather use a contact form them than send an email. Even if I think those people make bad decisions, I’d like to make it easier for them to contact me so they can give me…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: It would be really handy to be able to create a message that creates a staged user without having to resort to some other system to process the form and send an email. I reckon that you could use a Wizard ( :mage: Custom Wizard Plugin ) to achieve that without too much bot…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: So maybe what I’ll do in the plugin is create the post as if it were an email. Yes, this works: Creating a staged user with an API call - #8 by blake .

Oh! Of course. That’s how the mail-receiver delivers mail. I think I want an endpoint that will accept arbitrary fields from whatevver form, stick them into a topic, and deliver them to me. That would keep me from having to make public an API key (scoped to just deliver mail it doesn’t seem that hor…

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simon September 15, 2023, 1:07am 8

Yes, this works: Creating a staged user with an API call - #8 by blake.

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