# Staff Creation through API?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/staff-creation-through-api/31647>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [July 29, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/staff-creation-through-api/31647 "2022-07-29T11:11:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![anand1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anand1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/anand1)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/staff-creation-through-api/31647/1 "2022-07-29T11:11:55Z")

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Is there any way to create _ **Staffs** _ through API?  
We are planning to add multiple authors to a blog. Can we create authors by any means other than inviting them through Ghost user interface?

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**Author:** ![markstos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/markstos/32/18182_2.png) [@markstos](https://forum.ghost.org/u/markstos)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/staff-creation-through-api/31647/2 "2022-07-29T13:38:47Z")

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The Ghost Admin API is documented here:

> **[Ghost Admin API Documentation](https://ghost.org/docs/admin-api/)**
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> Manage content via Ghost's Admin API, with secure role-based authentication. Read more on Ghost Docs 👉

There is no documented method to create new staff users through it.

If you are familiar with using the Chrome Inspector, you could use the Network tab to watch what API call your browser makes to create a user when one is created manually.

You could then use that as a template to create the same API call directly, making sure to send along the same cookie header that your browser would. Since that method is not an official, documented API it might break in the future when Ghost is upgraded.

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**Author:** ![anand1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anand1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/anand1)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/staff-creation-through-api/31647/3 "2022-08-01T11:52:49Z")

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Hi Markstos,  
Thanks for the reply.  
I was able to achieve this by watching the API calls they make.