A Python script for the article "Changing the author of a Help Center article" at https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815128

change_author.py

import json
import requests


# Settings
article_id = your_article_id
updated_author_id = your_user_id
zendesk_subdomain = 'your_zendesk_subdomain'
email = 'your_user_email'
password = 'your_user_password'

# Structure and encode the data the way the API expects it
data = {'article': {'author_id': updated_author_id}}
payload = json.dumps(data)

# Make the request
url = 'https://{}.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/articles/{}.json'.format(zendesk_subdomain, article_id)
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
auth = email, password
response = requests.put(url, data=payload, headers=headers, auth=auth)
if response.status_code != 200:
    print('Failed to update article {} with error {}'.format(article_id, response.status_code))
    exit()
print('Successfully updated the author of article {}'.format(article_id))