It looks like there’s an endpoint to set a user’s info , including their location. However, I can’t figure out: How to pass the user ID instead of the username? When I post a new location to mydiscourse.com/u/my_user_name, I’m getting a 404 error on return… not sure why. I’m using the same cod…

Thanks Jeff, that was what I needed… being able to spy on the XHR requests directly is clever! For others who might need the info: I was able to PUT to /u/username.json and update the custom fields that way. And it appears you can only make the call with a username, not with a user ID (too bad).

How to set user's location string with Discourse API

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 1, 2020, 3:05am 2

See How to reverse engineer the Discourse API while you execute that operation in the user interface.

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