📘 How to create a new user via API

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It’s useful to use the built-in and full-featured API engine to perform any kind of integrations. In this article, I will show you step-by-step API call examples to create a new user account on the system.

The benefit of using API call instead of the standard user sign-up form is, API call gives you flexibility on setting target user group and reputation level.

First, you need to execute Admin.Login API call to create an admin session:

curl -X POST \
  http://yourdomain.com/oempro/api.php \
  -H 'Accept: */*' \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  -F command=Admin.Login \
  -F username=admin_username \
  -F 'password=admin_password' \
  -F disablecaptcha=1 \
  -F responseformat=JSON

If your admin username and password credentials are correct, you will get a session ID as a response:

{
    "Success": true,
    "ErrorCode": 0,
    "SessionID": "xxxxxxxx",
    "AdminInfo": {
        "AdminID": "1",
        "Name": "Administrator Name",
        "EmailAddress": "[email protected]",
        "Username": "admin_username",
        "Password": "admin_password"
    }
}

Now you have your admin session ID. It’s time to create our new user account:

curl -X POST \
  http://yourdomain.com/oempro/api.php \
  -H 'Accept: */*' \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  -H 'Host: yourdomain.com' \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -F command=User.Create \
  -F sessionid=xxxxxxxxxxx \
  -F responseformat=JSON \
  -F relusergroupid=1 \
  -F [email protected] \
  -F username=test1octeth \
  -F password=test1pass \
  -F 'firstname=Test 1 User' \
  -F 'lastname=Test 1 Last Name' \
  -F timezone=Europe/London \
  -F language=en \
  -F reputationlevel=Untrusted \
  -F accountstatus=Enabled \
  -F availablecredits=100

If the user create process is completed successfully, you will get a similar response:

{
    "Success": true,
    "ErrorCode": 0,
    "UserID": 6
}
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