Possible for admins to create bookmarks for users?

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Is it possible to create bookmarks for other users?

I’m imagining creating a new user’s first bookmark to a particular topic we write to help new users get up to speed.

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Oh! I just realized I can “impersonate” other users. So at the very least, I can go in as that user and create a bookmark for them.

So I have a solution. But I’m wondering if there’s a more elegant way?

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You could create them with the API or make a plugin that would do it when the account was created

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I’m using hosted Discourse, so I suspect I couldn’t install a custom plugin.

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That would depend on your budget. :slight_smile:

But one could probably come up with an API script that would get users from the previous day and add bookmarks for them.

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hmmm, this is making me want to look at my membership/SSO provider’s docs carefully (I’m using Memberful.com) I wonder if there’s a web hook I can have it call on new user registration… maybe I can connect that the Discourse.

Can someone point me to the API/webhook docs for Discourse that would create a bookmark for a user?

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I’ve looked through the ReDoc site, thanks to Discourse API Documentation

I see there’s an obvious API endpoint for creating a bookmark, /t/{id}/bookmark

If I call that as an API user who is an admin, is there a way I can specify that I want to create a bookmark for a specific user?

( The goal here is to call this API soon after a new user is created (by the SSO provider) to inject a specific bookmark for that new user. )

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I’m pretty sure you need to call that endpoint with the username of the user, but use the “All Users” api key.

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Rats, I was afraid of that.

All I have on the SSO provider’s side is the ability to specify a webhook URL to call upon account creation. I’d have to build a ‘glue’ web site that received their webhook call, looked in their payload for the username it chose/created, and then made the Discourse API call with the one parameter being all that’s different.

Oh. That makes me wonder if I can make something like IFTTT do that…

…yeup. Looks like the IFTTT Platform service is exactly for this.

*tosses idea on huge pile of things to hire someone to do*

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