Discourse sso login using Rest API

[Rana_Muhammad_Ahsan]

I’m creating a mobile application for my forum, and I want to use Discourse server (Rest API) with it. I’m looking for an api call which will return my sso signed payload (sig & sso). Is there any way to generate sso payload from an API call, or login to discourse using sso by using Discourse Rest API?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

For mobile apps always prefer to use the user api, see:

User API keys specification

Discourse contains a system for generating API keys per user if a very specific protocol is followed. This feature facilitates “application” access to Discourse instances without needing to involve moderators. High level description At a high level: Client (desktop app, browser plugin, mobile app) generates a private/public key pair and return url Client redirects to a route on discourse giving discourse its public key Discourse gets approval from user to use app Discourse generat…