Hey!

Is it possible to post as Guest via the write API?

I tried to reply to a topic via:

const bodyParameters = { _uid: 0, content: "It works!" };

But it does not work. Is it possible to post as a Guest and set a username with the request or is it only possible to use the write api with a existing uid?

Looking forward to your answers.

To anyone searching the same thing, I resolved the problem using the custom write-api hooks, I wasn't aware of:

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-write-api/blob/master/routes/v1/index.js#L45

filter:plugin.write-api.routes

that gives you data, I used it in this way:

function(data, callback) { var app = data.router; var apiMiddleware = data.apiMiddleware; var middleware = data.middleware; var errorHandler = data.errorHandler; app.post('/route', apiMiddleware.requireUser, function(req, res) { // do stuff }); callback(null, { router: app }); };

Obviously you should have nodebb-plugin-write-api installed.

Bad gateway might occur due to an incorrect setting in your Proxy.

It is recommended by me to use Nginx as it is easy to setup and apparently automatically recovers after a bad gateway.

What Operating System Are you using?

@Tilen-Štraus Glad you got it working, and thank you for sharing your solution for others who may run into the same trouble 😄

Thank you.
I did disable the option in the API-write module, and now it's working in a shell terminal when I send the above CURL command.
But when I try to use CURL in HTTPS within my PHP program,
I get this message (401) : A valid login session was not found. Please log in and try again.
I don't understand why I get this message, because :

I'm sending the Master token in the Header by calling the PHP function curl_setopt with the option CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER I try to send the credentials (login/password) by calling the PHP function curl_setopt with the option CURLOPT_USERPWD and login/password.

@pitaj said:

npm install

It works now. Thanks a lot for your help. Would have never figured out by myself:)

Awesome idea with this API btw, i almost gave up because i'm not familiar with nodejs, but when i found this plugin i realised that this is no longer an issue:)

Great work guys

Jonny
Don't ever apologies for providing advice, that after all is why we are all here 👍 and the great thing about advice is that the user can choose what to do with it. In this case I shall be applying it to the letter.

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@baris Please help
nothing happened after save changes again at same screen.

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