# Creating user via API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-user-via-api/36133>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [29. November 2015 um 20:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-user-via-api/36133 "2015-11-29T20:18:49Z")\
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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:** [30. November 2015 um 00:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-user-via-api/36133/2 "2015-11-30T00:47:00Z")

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Once you create the user through the API, you will need to make another api request to this endpoint to approve them:

```
http://localhost:3000/admin/users/<user_id>/approve

```

Are you using the discourse\_api gem to talk to the API or some other way?

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