Create User

Creates a User.

POST /users

Create User

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://codecombat.com/api/users \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "<string>",
  "email": "<string>",
  "preferredLanguage": "<string>",
  "heroConfig": {
    "thangType": "<string>"
  },
  "birthday": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://codecombat.com/api/users"

payload = {
    "name": "<string>",
    "email": "<string>",
    "preferredLanguage": "<string>",
    "heroConfig": { "thangType": "<string>" },
    "birthday": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Basic <encoded-value>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: '<string>',
    email: '<string>',
    preferredLanguage: '<string>',
    heroConfig: {thangType: '<string>'},
    birthday: '<string>'
  })
};

fetch('https://codecombat.com/api/users', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://codecombat.com/api/users",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'name' => '<string>',
    'email' => '<string>',
    'preferredLanguage' => '<string>',
    'heroConfig' => [
        'thangType' => '<string>'
    ],
    'birthday' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://codecombat.com/api/users"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"<string>\",\n  \"preferredLanguage\": \"<string>\",\n  \"heroConfig\": {\n    \"thangType\": \"<string>\"\n  },\n  \"birthday\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://codecombat.com/api/users")
  .header("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"<string>\",\n  \"preferredLanguage\": \"<string>\",\n  \"heroConfig\": {\n    \"thangType\": \"<string>\"\n  },\n  \"birthday\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://codecombat.com/api/users")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Basic <encoded-value>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"<string>\",\n  \"preferredLanguage\": \"<string>\",\n  \"heroConfig\": {\n    \"thangType\": \"<string>\"\n  },\n  \"birthday\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "_id": "<string>",
  "email": "<string>",
  "name": "<string>",
  "slug": "<string>",
  "role": "<string>",
  "stats": {
    "gamesCompleted": 123,
    "concepts": {},
    "playTime": 123
  },
  "oAuthIdentities": [
    {
      "provider": "<string>",
      "id": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "subscription": {
    "ends": "<string>",
    "active": true
  },
  "license": {
    "ends": "<string>",
    "active": true
  }
}

Example

url = 'https://codecombat.com/api/users'
json = { email: '[e-mail]', name: 'Some Username', role: 'student' }
request.post({ url, json, auth })

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Basic authentication header of the form Basic <encoded-value>, where <encoded-value> is the base64-encoded string username:password.

Body

application/json

name · string · required

email · string · required

role · enum<string> | null

"student" or "teacher". If unset, a home user will be created, unable to join classrooms.

Available options: student, teacher

preferredLanguage · string | null

heroConfig · UsersCreateRequestHeroConfig · object | null

Show child attributes

birthday · string | null

Response

200 - application/json

The created user

Subset of properties listed here

_id · string | null

email · string | null

name · string | null

slug · string | null

role · string | null

Usually either 'teacher' or 'student'

stats · UserResponseStats · object | null

Show child attributes

oAuthIdentities · UserResponseOAuthIdentitiesItem · object[] | null

Show child attributes

subscription · UserResponseSubscription · object | null

Show child attributes

license · UserResponseLicense · object | null

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