# How to update a private message by API?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-update-a-private-message-by-api/214290
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [January 9, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-update-a-private-message-by-api/214290 "2022-01-09T11:23:38Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-update-a-private-message-by-api/214290/2 "2022-01-09T11:25:20Z")

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See [How to reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576). You’re on the right track, I think.

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