Overview
You can use this API request to make a user start following a specific topic.
Information
You can use the following parameters in your make a user follow a topic request:
Specific: follower
Other options: wrap
Permissions & Notes:
- You must have the Follow questions, users, topics, and categories permission under Standard Roles in the Advanced Editor.
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You must be the site System Administrator to make other users follow nodes.
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The follower parameter specifies the user that will become a follower of the topic.
- The follower parameter will be the user's userId.
- Add the follower parameter with the -d tag in cURL.
- If you do not use the follower parameter, the user whose credentials you included in the request becomes the node follower.
- We added this request in version 1.6.3.
A PUT make a user follow a topic request to make a user (userId: 31) a follower of a topic (topicId: 127) sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable Username/Password (answerhub/test123) would look like this:
- cURL
curl
-u answerhub:test123
-H "Accept: application/json"
-H "Content-type: application/json"
-X PUT "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/topic/127/follow.json?follower=31" -v
curl
-u answerhub:test123
-H "Accept: application/json"
-H "Content-type: application/json"
-X PUT "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/topic/127/follow.json?follower=31" -vSuccessful Response:
- HTTP Status 200 - OK
Priyanka Bhotika
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