Median

PATCH /members/{userId}

Updated Oct 1, 20261 minute read

Change somebody's role

Promotes or demotes somebody. Making an owner hands the organization over. The ranking rules are checked against your own role: an admin cannot touch another admin, only an owner can make one, and the last owner cannot step down.

Part of Organization.

Parameters

NameInTypeRequiredDescription
userIdpathstringYes

Request body

application/json, required.

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
role"owner" | "admin" | "member"Yes

Responses

StatusDescription
200Done.
400The request is malformed, and the message names the field.
401The bearer token is missing, revoked, or expired.
403The token's person does not hold the role this needs.
404Not one of yours, or not there at all.
429Too many requests. Wait the seconds in Retry-After. Limits depend on the plan. See rate limits.

200 body

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
okbooleanNo

Example response

{
  "ok": true
}

Example request

curl -X PATCH https://api.median.sh/v1/members/userId \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BEARER_AUTH"

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