Creating a staged user with an API call

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Yes, just create a user via the api. They won’t be “staged” at this point since they actually exist. If they ever need to log in, they can just reset their password.

This is also possible

Here is a rough example of how to create a user, active them, and generate an api key for them. 
    def create_user
      user = {
        name: example1,
        email: "example1@example.com",
        password: "ZvAmmkcSWQfsPQLBksg7wK59",
        username: example1,
        active: "false",
        approved: "true",
        approved_by_id: 1,
        approved_at: DateTime.now
      }

      new_user = @client.create_user(user)
      id = new_user['user_id']
      @client.activate(id)
      uri = URI.parse(@config.full_discourse_url)
      http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
      http.use_ssl = true
      request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/admin/users/#{id}/generate_api_key?api_key=#{@client.api_key}&api_username=#{@client.api_username}")
      response = http.request(request)
      result = JSON.parse(response.body)
    end

Another option instead of generating an api key for each user is you can just instantiate a new discourse client using the same admin api key and just specify the new username:

client = DiscourseApi::Client.new("http://127.0.0.1:3000")
client.api_key = "a71cb5058c6be27e42806ad788bc7b0008af9c15170d1be1827a24c8e8334107"
client.api_username = "system"

... create user here...

client2 = DiscourseApi::Client.new("http://127.0.0.1:3000")
client2.api_key = "a71cb5058c6be27e42806ad788bc7b0008af9c15170d1be1827a24c8e8334107"
client2.api_username = example1

... create post here ...
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