Higher Logic Vanilla API: manage discussions and users
domain: vanillaforums.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Generate a Personal Access Token from the target Vanilla community's dashboard (or use OAuth/JWT auth if configured), per Vanilla's API v2 docs.
Send requests to that specific community's own /api/v2 base — each Vanilla forum is its own instance with its own base URL.
List or create discussions via the /discussions endpoints (GET to list/filter, POST to create), following Vanilla's 'Unified Record Format' for shared fields like body/format.
Manage users via the /users endpoints (list, get, update) for profile and role data.
Confirm exact current endpoints against the live Swagger UI at docs.vanillaforums.com/help/apiv2/swagger before building.
Known gotchas
Don't confuse this with the separate 'Higher Logic API v2.0' (api.higherlogic.com) used by Higher Logic's broader Thrive/Connect community platform — Vanilla has its own distinct REST API and documentation tree.
Every Vanilla community is its own instance/base URL; there is no shared multi-tenant endpoint.
Content fields follow a documented 'Unified Record Format' shared across discussions/comments — check that section rather than assuming plain-text bodies.
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