I’ve found a few examples in these forums of updating user info via the API but can’t get it to work. I’m a junior developer so maybe I’m missing something obvious. First I tried getting this example to work: curl -X PUT -d 'name=new name’ -L 'https://mysite.com/users/user12345.json?api_key=mykey&a…

Ok… I was finally able to figure this out. Will leave a little summary here in case someone in the future is looking for how to do this. The other answers I found on the forums were out of date. To update the name via API: curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" -H "Api-Key:…

Need Help updating profile info via API

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JammyDodger May 4, 2024, 7:53am 4

Have you tried Reverse engineer the Discourse API to check what happens when you use the UI to perform the change?

It works for me when sending a PUT request to eg. /u/test_one.json

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