Does Discourse have support for PAT tokens?

[Gokul_Ks]

Is there support for PAT tokens in Discourse. There is a particular use-case we are working on that we might need PAT tokens. If yes, where can I find them?

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

You can create an api key assigned to a specific user and it will use the same user permissions that they have access to when logged in.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

There are also (if enabled), user-provisioned API keys.

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 genera…

[Gokul_Ks]

Tried out this request but it didn’t work, am I doing something wrong here?

I’m testing out things such that a webhook gets triggered when I request a user api key

I’m getting a 404 error

[Gokul_Ks]

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

@Gokul_Ks

I’m testing out things such that a webhook gets triggered when I request a user api key

I don’t believe discourse has a webhook that will trigger when a “user api key” is requested.

Are you trying to use one of these events to trigger the webhook?