# Suspend API Not Working

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-api-not-working/72375>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-api-not-working/72375 "2017-10-18T20:47:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![huberfe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/huberfe/32/87242_2.png) [@huberfe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/huberfe)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-api-not-working/72375/7 "2018-01-12T15:48:19Z")

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@jomaxro is it able to have the ‘forever’ option via api as well?

> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Admin%2Fpaths%2F~1admin~1users~1%7Bid%7D~1suspend%2Fput)**

what would we need to put into the request?

```plaintext
{
  "suspend_until": "string",
  "reason": "string"
}
```

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