I think this is a recent bug that popped up. My client uses the Discourse as a service hosted by the lovely Discourse folks. We use the /posts.json API endpoint to list the 5 most recent posts from the forum on the website ( https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/posts.json ). We make this request server-side …

That implies you may have special security that keeps some of the posts from being visible to anonymous users?

@codinghorror I think I just realized why this is happening. We do have a category on our forum that is restricted to a special group of paying users on our main site. Anonymous / “normal” logged in users can’t access this category. I’m going to guess that if a single topic in that special category…

Thanks @codinghorror . This is exactly what I’ve done. I make a request for the /posts.json using my API key with a “dummy” user possessing the desired permissions since not all members of our website have created accounts on the forum yet. Everything is working as expected.

/posts.json API endpoint doesn't list more than 4 posts

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 5, 2019, 2:03pm 4

That feature already exists, include the API key of a user with the desired permissions.

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/posts.json API endpoint doesn't list more than 4 posts

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