Admin

Merge a user

POST

https://discourse.example.com/admin/users/{id}/merge.json

Merge a user into another user. Requires admin permissions. The source user cannot be a staff member. The merge runs in the background and deletes the source user when complete.

Merge a user

curl -X POST 'https://discourse.example.com/admin/users/0/merge.json' \
  -H 'Api-Key: string' \
  -H 'Api-Username: string' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "target_username": "string"
}'

const body = `{
  "target_username": "string"
}`;

const response = await fetch('https://discourse.example.com/admin/users/0/merge.json', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Api-Key': 'string',
    'Api-Username': 'string',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body,
});

const data = await response.text();

import requests

body = '''{
  "target_username": "string"
}'''

response = requests.post(
    'https://discourse.example.com/admin/users/0/merge.json',
    data=body.encode('utf-8'),
    headers={
        'Api-Key': 'string',
        'Api-Username': 'string',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
)
print(response.text)

Request Body

{
  "target_username": "string"
}

200

{
  "success": "OK"
}

Body

application/json

target_usernamestringrequired

Username of the user to merge into

Parameters

Api-Keystringrequiredheader

Api-Usernamestringrequiredheader

idintegerrequiredpath

ID of the user to merge

Response

200OKany

response

Response fields application/json

successstringrequired

Example

OK

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