I’m looking to trigger the sending of a passwordless login email to a user from the API (that they would get if they hit ‘login by email’ themselves), and it doesn’t seem to be possible. I’ve used the ‘API reverse engineer’ technique to try and get at it, but authenticating with a global API key sim…

[image] David Evans: What I’m looking to achieve is a sign-up process with as few steps as possible; as users sign up through another system I create the users in Discourse, In this case the proper solution would be a invisible login setup using DiscourseConnect . [image] David Evans: I’v…

Many thanks for the reply Falco. Specifically using curl exactly as you suggest I get a ‘You are being redirected’ response that would send me back to the home page. No login email is triggered. I was getting a similar result with the tool I was using - which was following the redirect back to the h…

[image] David Evans: I get a ‘You are being redirected’ response that would send me back to the home page. That endpoint is not available for API calls at the moment indeed. When you pass API keys for it you fall on the redirect here: app/controllers/users_controller.rb 2e2fee9da …

Generating a login email via API

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davidevans (David Evans) August 11, 2022, 8:58am 5

Thanks - that’s clear, and I can see the logic to it. Really appreciate the replies.

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Generating a login email via API

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