How to save user without authorization for api?

Question

Laravel

Good afternoon! There is an API (laravel), with login, register and save_page (example name) methods.
When the user has passed login, then when using the save_page method, I can check if the user is authorized and save the data with his id.
Now the question is, if an unauthorized user does, for example, save_page 3 times, to identify him for the first time, I will assign him a unique id and execute save_page. But, how can I understand for the second and third time that this is the same user? After all, api does not save state, right?
I would be grateful for a hint.

Answer 1

The API does not save, yes, but what prevents you from requiring a "guest login" from the client? There is such a practice as anonymous user. That is, everyone who accesses the api should receive a token, but it doesn’t matter how. You can allow such access for a while and that's it