Make a User Follow Another User

/services/v2/user/[userId]/follow.json

You can use the following parameters in your make a user follow another user request:

Specific: follower
Other options: wrap

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Permissions & Notes:

• You must have the Follow questions, users, topics, and categories permission under Standard Roles in the Advanced Editor.
• You must have the Edit users and groups permission under Site Administration Roles in the Advanced Editor to use the follower parameter for another user.
• The optional follower parameter specifies the user that will become a follower of the specified user.
  • The follower parameter, if used, will be the user's userId.
  • The follower parameter, if used, should go in the query string of the url.
  • If you do not use the follower parameter, the user whose credentials you included in the request, the system makes the space follower.
• We added this request in version 1.6.3.

Sample Request

A PUT make a user follow another user request to make the API authenticated user a follower of another user (userId: 7) 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/user/7/follow.json?follower=11" -v

In the example above, Dzone (user 7) is now following Answerhub (user 11).

Expected Response

Successful Response

• HTTP Status 200 - OK