# How to allow user-agent access to private discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [11월 13, 2015, 11:49오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537 "2015-11-13T23:49:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 7

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [11월 14, 2015, 12:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537/7 "2015-11-14T00:40:34Z")

</div>

I don’t think we’ve ever encountered this situation before. You would need to authenticate the crawler as a regular user, probably through the Discourse API. Do we have any examples of this @techapj?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-allow-user-agent-access-to-private-discourse/35537)._