# Creating notifications via the API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-notifications-via-the-api/173769>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** notifications, rest-api\
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-notifications-via-the-api/173769 "2020-12-17T10:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mevo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mevo/32/187732_2.png) [@Mevo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mevo)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-notifications-via-the-api/173769/1 "2020-12-17T10:55:49Z")

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Hi, a quick question: Can you send notifications to users with the API? (or another way).  
In the documentation, I found how to GET notifications of the user, how to mark them as read, but not how to POST some. If it isn’t possible, I guess there is always to possibility of using private messages instead.  
I would appreciate any input on this. Thanks.

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