I was looking at the Discourse Mobile app source code and noticed it using the user API keys, and calling /user-api-key/new but I don’t see any reference to that in the Discourse API documentation. Are the routes documented anywhere beyond the source code? And, how do users from SSO get their own A…

The HEAD /user-api-key/new request you are seeing is not creating anything, it’s mostly to check the site exists and it has the correct auth API version. As you can see if it’s a HEAD request we are returning early: discourse/app/controllers/user_api_keys_controller.rb at main · discourse/discourse…

Is there any documentation on the User/Mobile API?

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sam (Sam Saffron) June 25, 2019, 12:47am 4

Current docs are at User API keys specification

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Is there any documentation on the User/Mobile API?

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