# Create Topic via API behalf of another user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-via-api-behalf-of-another-user/162633
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-via-api-behalf-of-another-user/162633 "2020-09-01T07:55:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Q3manish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/258eb7/32.png) [@Q3manish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Q3manish)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-via-api-behalf-of-another-user/162633/1 "2020-09-01T07:55:02Z")

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Is this possible create topic via API behalf of user but that user not create a topic by dashboard.

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### Author: ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-via-api-behalf-of-another-user/162633/2 "2020-09-01T15:54:36Z")

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With an “All Users” api key you can pass in the username of the user you want the topic to be created for.

```plaintext
curl -i -sS -X POST "http://localhost:3000/posts.json" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \
-H "Api-Key: 079fb2bb12d...all-users-api-key" \
-H "Api-Username: any-username" \
-F "title=9c02314d4a5 3ce4e754374 c42066df84d" \
-F "raw=7d7225b7704b973e2e352605219fce44 4328e51d07fcbe6f3d709ef54c7a0a10 78fab042da69066d242cea6c8f3b13e1"

```

I’m not sure what you mean by “not create a topic by dashboard”.

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### Author: ![Q3manish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/258eb7/32.png) [@Q3manish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Q3manish)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-via-api-behalf-of-another-user/162633/3 "2020-09-02T04:27:17Z")

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Thanks Blake  
I mean user not create a topic by interface ,Only admin will create topic by API behalf of user

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/e/be4f13fb3734b547fca403d56c309e4f451d6844.png) .

If i set trust level of user then admin not able to create topic behalf of user.