# How to script the setup wizard?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-script-the-setup-wizard/169288
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 4, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-script-the-setup-wizard/169288 "2020-11-04T22:21:14Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-script-the-setup-wizard/169288/2 "2020-11-04T23:17:34Z")

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Wizard is half site settings, half API calls.

For API calls you can read [How to reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576) and for site settings follow the example here:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/master/samples/standalone.yml#L98>

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