I’m trying to update the content of a post using the API. The docs at Discourse API Docs mention that I should use PUT /posts/:id.json sending post[raw] as a body. This results in 400 along with: errors: [ 'param is missing or the value is empty: post' ] The error is complaining about a param called post, but replacing post[raw] with post in my HTTP request results in a 500 Internal Server Error response. The post content was just Edited comment, so I don’t think it’s anything related to the content. Am I missing something? Are the API docs out of date? I’m running a cloud instance at https://forums.balena.io. Not sure what the Discourse version is.

I just realised I was passing a topic id instead of a post id to the API, but the problem still persists. I’m trying to update post 34816, assuming you have access to the cloud instance: PUT https://forums.balena.io/posts/34816.json With body: { "post": "Edited comment" } And that still results in 500.

Why is my post being flagged as spam? Is this not the right place to submit bugs?

Glad you got it figured out! I’ve got a bunch of topics that are me taking to myself. Mostly these are the docs, and they are continually updated: Reverse engineer the Discourse API :wink: I generally forget that there are any docs besides just seeing how it works in the browser development tools.

500 or 400 when updating the content of a post using the API

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jviotti (Juan Cruz Viotti) April 24, 2019, 9:56am 4

Turns out it works fine if I pass raw instead of post in the request body. The docs could probably be clearer about that

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500 or 400 when updating the content of a post using the API

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