Hi, I have custom Discourse webhook integration for notifications about new topics in chat server and I started to use draft feature for staff. Unfortunately I don’t see any variable that I can check for to prevent exposing staff-stuff to regular users. Am I missing something? Request URL: Request method: POST Accept: */* Connection: close Content-Length: 1063 Content-Type: application/json Host: User-Agent: Discourse/2.2.0.beta4 X-Discourse-Instance: X-Discourse-Event-Id: 9605 X-Discourse-Event-Type: topic X-Discourse-Event: topic_created X-Discourse-Event-Signature: sha256= { "topic": { "tags": [], "id": 9091, "title": " ", "fancy_title": " ", "posts_count": 1, "created_at": "2018-11-26T18:01:33.367Z", "views": 0, "reply_count": 0, "like_count": 0, "last_posted_at": "2018-11-26T18:01:33.521Z", "visible": true, "closed": false, "archived": false, "archetype": "regular", "slug": " ", "category_id": 4, "word_count": 4, "deleted_at": null, "pending_posts_count": 0, "user_id": 1, "featured_link": null, "pinned_globally": false, "pinned_at": null, "pinned_until": null, "unpinned": null, "pinned": false, "highest_post_number": 1, "deleted_by": null, "has_deleted": false, "bookmarked": null, "participant_count": 1, "created_by": { "id": 1, "username": " ", "name": " ", "avatar_template": " " }, "last_poster": { "id": 1, "username": " ", "name": " ", "avatar_template": " " } } }

How to detect draft topic via webhooks?

simon November 26, 2018, 6:53pm 2

When a shared draft is created, the category_id will be set to the ID of the shared drafts category. You could try checking the category_id and then not publishing the topic if it comes from your shared drafts category.

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How to detect draft topic via webhooks?

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