Create Contributor (staff users) via API?

[Cathy_Sarisky]

Suggestion (stolen from Jon Hickman), since this thread got bumped: Another option for making staff accounts (without having to deal with invites) is to import a file containing staff users. Here’s a link to that post:

Creating new authors

Using the Universal Import, you can upload placeholder authors via JSON. The import doesn’t generate emails and the account doesn’t need to be accepted by anyone so you can use anything that validates as an email address here. You can then edit the email, slug, name and role for one of these placeholders from inside admin each time you want to issue an author account to a real person. They’ll need to do a password reset from /ghost/#/signin to start using the login if that’s what they’re going …

That’s my favorite way to make a bunch of staff users in a hurry, without clicking a bunch of emailed links.

I am not certain if you can upload them via API, now that the 2FA requirement is in. Please report back if you try it!