# Possible for admins to create bookmarks for users?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 7, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689 "2019-04-07T16:15:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/1 "2019-04-07T16:15:22Z")
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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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/2 "2019-04-07T17:29:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/3 "2019-04-07T17:54:37Z")
You could create them with the API or make a plugin that would do it when the account was created
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/4 "2019-04-07T17:55:44Z")
I’m using hosted Discourse, so I suspect I couldn’t install a custom plugin.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/5 "2019-04-07T19:00:48Z")
That would depend on your budget. 🙂
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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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/6 "2019-04-07T22:50:14Z")
hmmm, this is making me want to look at my membership/SSO provider’s docs carefully (I’m using [Memberful.com](http://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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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/7 "2019-04-08T16:45:17Z")
I’ve looked through the ReDoc site, thanks to [Discourse REST API Documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706)
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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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/8 "2019-04-08T16:49:23Z")
> [@craigconstantine](#):
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> 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?
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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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/9 "2019-04-08T16:55:57Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-for-admins-to-create-bookmarks-for-users/113689/10 "2019-05-08T16:56:05Z")
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