Hey, I was wondering if there’s a direct API endpoint to impersonate a user. I’ve gone through the API docs but didn’t find much on it. I also looked under the networks section, but I’m still not sure. Just wanted to get a quick confirmation since my script isn’t working the way I expected. Also, c…

In case someone needs it, it’s f\"{DISCOURSE_BASE_URL}/admin/impersonate\".

Yeah, I had already seen that. I just wanted to confirm since the script wasn’t working before, but I managed to fix it now :))

Direct Api Endpoint For User Impersonation

thoka (Thomas Kalka) December 25, 2024, 6:21am 2

Reverse engineer the Discourse API allows you to script anything that can be done using the user interface.

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