# Is there an API for changing a password?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-api-for-changing-a-password/52537
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 5, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-api-for-changing-a-password/52537 "2016-11-05T08:50:21Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-an-api-for-changing-a-password/52537/4 "2016-11-05T19:07:14Z")

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Oh, wait, are you looking for an API for a user to change _his own_ password?

If so, there’s an API for that – just change your password here and use your browsers Dev tools to find out how it works 🙂

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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