# Does Discourse have support for PAT tokens?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-support-for-pat-tokens/258488
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [March 17, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-support-for-pat-tokens/258488 "2023-03-17T11:00:34Z")
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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: [March 17, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-support-for-pat-tokens/258488/2 "2023-03-17T18:36:03Z")

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You can [create an api key assigned to a specific user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-and-configure-an-api-key/230124) and it will use the same user permissions that they have access to when logged in.

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