# Using API to limit trust\_levels?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-api-to-limit-trust-levels/371684
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** trust-levels, rest-api
**Created:** [June 25, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-api-to-limit-trust-levels/371684 "2025-06-25T17:56:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-api-to-limit-trust-levels/371684/1 "2025-06-25T17:56:23Z")
Continuing the discussion from [How to limit trust level on group?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-limit-trust-level-on-group/364927/10):
> [@How to limit trust level on group?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-limit-trust-level-on-group/364927/10):
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> No, I don’t think it’s possible to do it that way.
I wonder if any experienced user/dev can give me some light here? I want to limit trust\_levels usint badges and/or automation and I see it’s not possible out of the box.
Trying to get this done I found that API calls can lock or unlock the trust\_level on users, so it could work?
Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Kayaart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kayaart)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-api-to-limit-trust-levels/371684/2 "2025-06-25T20:23:27Z")
Yes, you got it right: you can’t directly limit the trust level through badges or automation, but you can through the API. If you create a condition (for example, getting a badge), you can call the API with a script to change the trust\_level and fix it. It’s not out of the box, but it works
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-api-to-limit-trust-levels/371684/3 "2025-06-25T20:34:02Z")
> [@Kayaart](#):
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> t: you can’t directly limit the trust level through badges or automation, but you can through the API. If you create a condition (for example, getting a badge), you can call the API with a script to change the trust\_level and fix it. It’s not out of the box, but it works
Thanks, I’ll share my experiments. Feel free to share any insight/reading/idea/prototype as well.
_It’s good to see you here, welcome to the forum._
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### Author:  [@Kayaart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kayaart)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-api-to-limit-trust-levels/371684/4 "2025-06-26T09:08:40Z")
Thank you, I’ve been on many forums and I can say that the people here are very nice.Thank you for your content