Mark notifications as read from Discourse API

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Anything you can do from the website you can do from the API per:

Reverse engineer the Discourse API

Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. 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: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select XHR filter: [image] Perform the op…

The problem here is that delegating this to clients is inherently unsafe. How do you have confidence the end users are even logged in to Discourse?