# Updating custom fields using API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-custom-fields-using-api/153337
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api, user-custom-fields
**Created:** [May 30, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-custom-fields-using-api/153337 "2020-05-30T21:29:16Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-custom-fields-using-api/153337/6 "2023-04-17T10:48:57Z")

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> [@How to change user fields with API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-user-fields-with-api/147999):
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> (Edit: see 2nd post for solution: how to change user fields with API)@sam, you mentioned (in a post in a topic now closed) with regards to someone who wanted to use the API to update a custom field in a user record: “the field needs to be whitelisted can you add it to /admin/customize/user\_fields or is this field meant to be completely hidden from users?” Two quick questions What is /admin/customize/ endpoint? How do you “whitelist” a field? (What does that mean-- whitelist it so the API can…

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