# Seeding a new forum by creating users and content

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeding-a-new-forum-by-creating-users-and-content/49345
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 28, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeding-a-new-forum-by-creating-users-and-content/49345 "2016-08-28T20:29:52Z")
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### Author: ![Sergiz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sergiz/32/60963_2.png) [@Sergiz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sergiz)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeding-a-new-forum-by-creating-users-and-content/49345/2 "2016-08-28T22:23:46Z")

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You can write yourself a script for that using API 😉

> [@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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