# Is there a way to automatically grant custom badges without SQL?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-grant-custom-badges-without-sql/350202
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 3, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-grant-custom-badges-without-sql/350202 "2025-02-03T04:56:55Z")
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### Author: ![NoNoWahooFromGimkit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nonowahoofromgimkit/32/459382_2.png) [@NoNoWahooFromGimkit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NoNoWahooFromGimkit)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-grant-custom-badges-without-sql/350202/1 "2025-02-03T04:56:56Z")

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I am an admin for a pretty new forum, and some users have fake ‘badges’ in their bios (kind of like the Gimkit Creative forums). I was thinking about making the bio-badges actual badges, but I don’t want to grant the badges manually and cannot use SQL. Is there a way to do this? My idea was to replace the bio-badges with a link that grants the badge when clicked, but is that even possible?

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-grant-custom-badges-without-sql/350202/2 "2025-02-03T18:58:18Z")

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Using the API is probably your only other option. [Grant a custom badge through the API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-a-custom-badge-through-the-api/103270).