API Users 1.0.0

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API Users - Create user accounts that exist only to hold an API key: no password, no email address, not shown

API Users creates user accounts that exist only to hold an API key. An API user has no password and no email address, cannot log in, and is not shown to the public as a member.

It is for an administrator who wants a script, a monitor or an integration to act through the REST API as its own account, without that account also being a way into the forum.

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Why not an ordinary account?​

A key that acts as a real...

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Sim updated API Users with a new update entry:

v1.0.0 beta 2

1.0.0 Beta 2 (2026-10-11)​

• The add-on's entry in the control panel links to its discussion thread, its resource page and its repository. Nothing else has changed; there is no need to upgrade from Beta 1 for this.

1.0.0 Beta 1 (2026-10-11)​

First public release.

• An API user is an account with its own authentication scheme: no password, no email address and no way to log in. It can act only through an API key that names it...

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Sim updated API Users with a new update entry:

v1.0.0 beta 3

1.0.0 Beta 3 (2026-10-24)​

• Internal hardening: what the add-on reads from the database and from other add-ons is now checked before it is used. If the user content map supplied through user_content_change_init has a malformed entry, conversion now stops with an error, where a malformed entry could otherwise have been skipped. Nothing else has changed in behaviour.

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Sim updated API Users with a new update entry:

v1.0.0 release

1.0.0 (2026-10-24)​

First stable release. It is Beta 3 with one change:

• The reasons a conversion is refused are now left-aligned on the Convert to API user page, rather than centred around their bullets.

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