Is there an update on the write API? Would be interesting to see how it's coming along.

What I'm trying to achieve is a seamless link between our current website to a NodeBB installation. So I want our site to manage whether or not a user has access to the NodeBB installaition. They would login via our site, and if authorised, would be able to visit the forum and be logged in automatically, without the need for manual authorisation. Is this possible?

@julian said:

For security, it will be a plugin, and it should be able to mimic anything built into NodeBB.

That's incredible news - can't wait!

@a_5mith Is there any word of the extent of the api? From what I've read so far, posts are on the menu, but I haven't heard anything about sessions, users, groups, etc.

In my quieter moments I often dream of a comprehensive RESTful API for NodeBB. The features that I would like to see:

• Sessions management - to be able to login with POST /sessions would be incredible for logging in via third party apps
• User management - CRUD on users and ability to add to groups
• Groups management - CRUD on groups

It seems to me that NodeBB has the opportunity to become so much more than a forum, freeing it from the constraints of orthodoxy to become a true communications platform. Plugins would be easier to write and therefore more prevalent. It just seems right...

@mootzville I guess I could do that, but I was hoping for the much easier and safter method of using the API. With the plans for the write API, we wanted to build our app around it, so that method is certainly preferable.

@mootzville There are categories that are only visible to admins. I want to grab the data from the api and use it in a separate app.

How would you go about logging in programmatically? Is there a sessions api URL or something similar?

@baris Thanks - I'll try it when the next stable update comes out.

@baris it's the posts list on the profile page.

@xbenjii Brilliant! Thanks

It currently says: "There are no topics in this category Why don't you try posting one".

Is there a way to change this?

@a_5mith Thanks - was looking for that everywhere..

I can't find anywhere to change the footer text - am I missing a setting somewhere?

Seems to fold in on itself.

I don't know if this is possible with the current templating system. How would you go about doing this?

@Tanner Or even just when there is a stable version.

@Netto-Hikari said:

fail-safe is more important than SEO

I agree with you there. It may be plugin territory too.

@Netto-Hikari Yes I suppose so. You'd have to redirect old urls to the new ones. I just think that, especially for our use of the forum, it's ideal to have the category name (which isn't going to change, in our case).

Just thinking for SEO purposes, wouldn't it be better to have the category name instead of a number? E.g. forum.com/category/general-discussion/this-is-a-post.