# Creating a new topic on behalf of a user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-on-behalf-of-a-user/122624
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [7월 11, 2019, 5:28오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-on-behalf-of-a-user/122624 "2019-07-11T05:28:47Z")
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### Author: ![eoin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eoin/32/123786_2.png) [@eoin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eoin)
#### Post date: [7월 11, 2019, 5:28오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-on-behalf-of-a-user/122624/1 "2019-07-11T05:28:48Z")

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How may we set up a system where a topic is programmatically created on behalf of a specific user?

I’ve looked at doing this from Zapier, although it looks like a new post will always be by the admin user.

Eoin

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### Author: ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [7월 11, 2019, 8:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-on-behalf-of-a-user/122624/2 "2019-07-11T08:26:11Z")

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Hey there. I’m not sure what your system would involve, but you can certainly post a topic as a specific user using the Discourse API.

> [@Discourse REST API Documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706):
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> Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: [https://docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org)information_source Authentication API requests must use HTTP header based authentication. Pass your Api-Key and Api-Username as HTTP headers. Authentication via query parameters or request body is not supported (this was removed in April 2020). Please see the example cURL request below. The only API endpoints that continue to support credentials in query parameters are requests to…

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2023, 2:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-on-behalf-of-a-user/122624/3 "2023-01-01T02:29:19Z")

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2023, 4:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-new-topic-on-behalf-of-a-user/122624/4 "2023-01-01T04:37:53Z")

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