Discourse Notifications API

The Notifications API from Discourse — 2 operation(s) for notifications.

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discourse-notifications-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Discourse API Documentation Admin Notifications API
  x-logo:
    url: https://docs.discourse.org/logo.svg
  version: latest
  description: 'This page contains the documentation on how to use Discourse through API calls.


    > Note: For any endpoints not listed you can follow the

    [reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/20576)

    guide to figure out how to use an API endpoint.


    ### Request Content-Type


    The Content-Type for POST and PUT requests can be set to `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`,

    `multipart/form-data`, or `application/json`.


    ### Endpoint Names and Response Content-Type


    Most API endpoints provide the same content as their HTML counterparts. For example

    the URL `/categories` serves a list of categories, the `/categories.json` API provides the

    same information in JSON format.


    Instead of sending API requests to `/categories.json` you may also send them to `/categories`

    and add an `Accept: application/json` header to the request to get the JSON response.

    Sending requests with the `Accept` header is necessary if you want to use URLs

    for related endpoints returned by the API, such as pagination URLs.

    These URLs are returned without the `.json` prefix so you need to add the header in

    order to get the correct response format.


    ### Authentication


    Some endpoints do not require any authentication, pretty much anything else will

    require you to be authenticated.


    To become authenticated you will need to create an API Key from the admin panel.


    Once you have your API Key you can pass it in along with your API Username

    as an HTTP header like this:


    ```

    curl -X GET "http://127.0.0.1:3000/admin/users/list/active.json" \

    -H "Api-Key: 714552c6148e1617aeab526d0606184b94a80ec048fc09894ff1a72b740c5f19" \

    -H "Api-Username: system"

    ```


    and this is how POST requests will look:


    ```

    curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:3000/categories" \

    -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \

    -H "Api-Key: 714552c6148e1617aeab526d0606184b94a80ec048fc09894ff1a72b740c5f19" \

    -H "Api-Username: system" \

    -F "name=89853c20-4409-e91a-a8ea-f6cdff96aaaa" \

    -F "color=49d9e9" \

    -F "text_color=f0fcfd"

    ```


    ### Boolean values


    If an endpoint accepts a boolean be sure to specify it as a lowercase

    `true` or `false` value unless noted otherwise.

    '
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://docs.discourse.org/LICENSE.txt
servers:
- url: https://{defaultHost}
  variables:
    defaultHost:
      default: discourse.example.com
tags:
- name: Notifications
paths:
  /notifications.json:
    get:
      summary: Get the notifications that belong to the current user
      tags:
      - Notifications
      operationId: getNotifications
      responses:
        '200':
          description: notifications
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  notifications:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        id:
                          type: integer
                        user_id:
                          type: integer
                        notification_type:
                          type: integer
                        read:
                          type: boolean
                        created_at:
                          type: string
                        post_number:
                          type:
                          - integer
                          - 'null'
                        topic_id:
                          type:
                          - integer
                          - 'null'
                        slug:
                          type:
                          - string
                          - 'null'
                        data:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            badge_id:
                              type: integer
                            badge_name:
                              type: string
                            badge_slug:
                              type: string
                            badge_title:
                              type: boolean
                            username:
                              type: string
                  total_rows_notifications:
                    type: integer
                  seen_notification_id:
                    type: integer
                  load_more_notifications:
                    type: string
  /notifications/mark-read.json:
    put:
      summary: Mark notifications as read
      tags:
      - Notifications
      operationId: markNotificationsAsRead
      parameters: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: notifications marked read
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  success:
                    type: string
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                id:
                  type: integer
                  description: '(optional) Leave off to mark all notifications as

                    read'