I have been reviewing the API documentation and can not seem to find how I can edit user information other than email and avatar. For example firstname, lastname, and more importantly custom fields. [Screenshot 2020-05-30 at 22.10.02] Can someone please help. Thank you.

You can learn the API request for that using How to reverse engineer the Discourse API

This is at least twice in as many days that this has been the answer to a question. That link really needs to be at the top of the docs.

I agree, if there is a docs document it is kind of assumed it is complete and if not it would be good to mention it.

Is there any detailed solution yet for this topic @hjalali ?

Is this topic any help? [afbeelding] How to change user fields with API Dev (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 …

There is now a message on docs.discourse.org : Note: For any endpoints not listed you can follow the reverse engineer the Discourse API guide to figure out how to use an API endpoint. But we’ll try to update it from time to time to make it more complete. @philipp96 , did you have a look at Revers…

Updating custom fields using API

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Creating and Adding Values to `custom_fields` via API Support	5	1556	27 november 2018
How to change user fields with API Development rest-api	7	2816	22 maart 2023
No longer able to access custom user fields after update Support user-custom-fields	3	90	6 juni 2025
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Updating custom fields using API

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