# Quick Messages Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-messages-plugin/39188
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** broken
**Created:** [2016年二月8日 00:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-messages-plugin/39188 "2016-02-08T00:13:55Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [2016年六月7日 11:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-messages-plugin/39188/134 "2016-06-07T11:26:01Z")

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> [@Will\_Battel](#):
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> Is there a way to pull these messages to display on another service (same user base)? Or maybe some sort of API for developers to retrieve and inject messages from other services? I use Discourse as a forum for our gaming community, and I’m writing a game plugin for messaging, and it’d be super cool if messages could by synched between the game server and Discourse.

Hey, this plugin displays normal Discourse private messages in a different way. You can get Discourse private messages through the Discourse api.

Here’s a useful topic explaining the api (including how to get private messages):

> [@Discourse REST API Documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706):
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> Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: [https://docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org)information_source Authentication API requests must use HTTP header based authentication. Pass your Api-Key and Api-Username as HTTP headers. Authentication via query parameters or request body is not supported (this was removed in April 2020). Please see the example cURL request below. The only API endpoints that continue to support credentials in query parameters are requests to…

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