Hi I am trying to generate User api keys. I know I can do it from admin dashboard. But instead of there I want to generate by making REST calls. I am following this post User API keys specification I am getting error “THIS PAGE IS PRIVATE OR DOES NOT EXISTS” when I try to make a GET request to thi…

I am also looking for same solution, can anyone help in this?

Hello, to generate an api key for a user: curl -X "POST" "http://localhost:4000/admin/users/1/generate_api_key?api_key=10efbf2c9a84dfb3b6f60ffa117c029bda7fc9fb8f861ccd0dc8e8fbfa86968d&api_username=joffreyjaffeux" Learn more about it: Discourse API Docs discourse_api/lib/discourse_api/api/api_ke…

@j.jaffeux That’s not the same “API” that @Umer_Mirza was asking about. I put “API” in quote because it may not exist? The User API keys specification RFC talks about the use case of allowing users themselves the ability to request and API key so that a third party developed app may perform actions…

[image] djensen47: Does the API that @sam proposed in that post actually exist or not? Yes user api keys exists and are consumed by the mobile app, look at the source code of the mobile app for exact specifications for now. I would love to have this better documented so if you want to take t…

Awesome, thanks for the quick response. Well, maybe I can get something started for documentation. I have to do something on this front anyway so I can post what I come up with here.

This is the endpoint sam is talking about I think: js/site_manager.js main auth_redirect: this.urlScheme, user_api_public_key: this.rsaKeys.public, }; if (type === 'full') { params = { …

Thanks @j.jaffeux . I was drafting a similar message but I only had the code from the mobile app. These other code snippets are very useful. When I tried this API against my own server using Postman, I kept getting a 400 error with no details. My Ruby is a little rusty but I’ll dig into the code mor…

I just tried adding my site to the official Discourse app, and it worked so I must be doing something wrong with regard to using the API in Postman. Aside: I thought the app only worked for officially hosted Discourse sites. :man_shrugging:

I’m getting error code 400 when I visit https://community.frontrowcrew.com/user-api-key/new

Can I get some assistance on this @sam ?

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