topic Can I use the ArcGIS REST API createUser in AGOL? in ArcGIS Online Questions

Can I use the ArcGIS REST API createUser in AGOL?

MichaelHancock — Tue, 05 May 2020 14:30:23 GMT

Something like

https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/oauth2/createUser?username=miketest42&password=test1234&firstname=Mike&lastname=Tester&role=org_user&userLicenseTypeId=creatorUT&email=miketest41@gmail.com&provider=arcgis&idpUsername=&description=Creator+account+for+Mike&f=json

I do get back a 200 OK but the account is not created ...

I'm trying to create a hub community user so they can take a survey but we don't want them to have to go through the esri login pages (branding issue)

Thanks in advance

Re: Can I use the ArcGIS REST API createUser in AGOL?

BenTurrell — Tue, 05 May 2020 23:26:36 GMT

Hey Michael Hancock‌,

I'm not super familiar with the REST API for ArcGIS Online however are you doing this with a POST or GET? I believe you will need to POST the data.

You can also use python which is my preferred way of doing this sort of thing:

from arcgis.gis import GIS
gis = GIS("portal url", "username", "password")
new_user = gis.users.create(username = 'miketest42',
                              password = 'test1234',
                              firstname = 'Mike',
                              lastname = 'Test',
                              email = 'miketest41@gmail.com',
                              description = 'Demonstrating how to create users using ArcGIS Python API',
                              role = 'org_user',
                              level = 1,
                              provider = 'arcgis')

You should just need to update the bits in red. The python API uses the REST API but it has better documentation and lots of examples!

Thanks,

Ben

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Re: Can I use the ArcGIS REST API createUser in AGOL?

MichaelHancock — Wed, 06 May 2020 16:51:45 GMT

Thank you Ben, yes I am using POST and using a token in the authentication header (OAuth 2.0)

I will try the Python API ... is there also a JavaScript API ?

Second part to my question: Is there a way to redirect our uses to our hub site and log them in?

I was hoping something like

https://our-hub-site.hub.arcgis.com?id=<userGeneratedToken>

https://our-hub-site.hub.arcgis.com?auth_token=<userGeneratedToken>

would work but it just appears to hang on the rotating square ...

Is this even possible?

Appreciate any further input

Thanks