You can use this API request to make a user start following a specific topic.
/services/v2/topic/[topicId]/follow.json
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.
You must be the site System Administrator to make other users follow nodes.
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.
Sample Request
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
-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
Expected Response
Successful Response:
- HTTP Status 200 - OK