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Strapi: Create user via api

#strapi #user #api #create

The functionality to create a user via api in Strapi 4 is already built in.
Its just that the route is different to the usual api routes.

Route to hit as POST:

// route to POST to localhost:1337/api/auth/local/register // body data to send { "email": "test1@test3.com", "username": "test2", "password": "123456", "firstname": "Grey", // custom field (see below config) "lastname": "Joy", // custom field (see below config) "organisers": [1] // id or ids of a relation field (mine is called organisers) } // returns { "jwt": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6NCwiaWF0IjoxNjk1MTQ1NDA3LCJleHAiOjE2OTc3Mzc0MDd9.9aUrYF4Ws1WCTDXHTFMU_7WUs0i5iLeqPdwubHM62mc", "user": { "id": 4, "username": "test2", "email": "test1@test3.com", "provider": "local", "confirmed": true, "blocked": false, "createdAt": "2023-09-19T17:43:27.406Z", "updatedAt": "2023-09-19T17:43:27.406Z", "firstname": "Grey", "lastname": "Joy", "role": { "id": 3, "name": "Customer", "description": "a logged in customer", "type": "customer", "createdAt": "2023-09-19T09:51:22.756Z", "updatedAt": "2023-09-19T09:51:22.756Z" } } }
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If you added custom fields to your user you will need to enable them by adding a file to the config folder:

// ./config/plugins.js module.exports = ({ env }) => ({ "users-permissions": { config: { register: { // put the name of your added fields here allowedFields: ["firstname", "lastname", "organisers"], }, }, } });
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Reference:
https://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/plugins/users-permissions#registration

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