Authorisation for app on same server as NodeBB

[babaggeii]

I have an app on the same server as my NodeBB installation, and I want to be able to read data into the app from the NodeBB api. If I have a user set up for this reason, how do I login via the app?

[julian]

Our API shows different data depending on the logged-in user derived from the cookie-based session. For regular data, just GET'ting the API responses from urls with api/ prepended should be enough.

Were you looking for private user data to be returned via the API?

[babaggeii]

@julian yes I want to retrieve data that has been restricted to some users.

[julian]

In that case, that would probably be something that would be exposed in the write-api, which is currently in the works.

Mostly because it would have proper API key access and such.

[babaggeii]

@julian ah OK, lots to look forward to. That api will give NodeBB so much power. I can imagine that plugins will be much easier to write too.

[babaggeii]

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