Hi, Our app hosts hundreds of communities and each of them need a chat channel. Currently we can automatically create categories and user groups via the API which is great, but we are forced to create every chat channel manually as there seems to be no API endpoint for this, which is a major strain…

Hmm, are you sure there is no API endpoint? I thought this was it: Category channel — POST /chat/api/channels Defined at plugins/chat/config/routes.rb:9 → Chat::Api::ChannelsController#create (plugins/chat/app/controllers/chat/api/channels_controller.rb:60).

Thank you so much @chapoi ! :slight_smile: For anyone else trying to do this, after some digging around I found out that these are the parameters needed to create a chat channel, in particular note that the category id needs to be in “chatable_id”: curl -i -X POST “YOUR_DISCOURSE_URL” -H “Conte…

Great, glad I could help! If the issue is resolved, please mark the post that helped you as the solution so others can find the answer too.

È necessario creare canali di chat tramite API

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chapoi 28 Maggio 2026, 10:36am 4

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