Expose Category and Group IDs to admins

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I’ll admit it’s not super easy to find if you don’t know where to look, but here’s a couple ways:

  • Data Explorer query:

    SELECT name, id FROM categories ORDER BY name

  • via categories.json

    curl https://meta.discourse.org/categories.json | jq '.category_list.categories[] | [.name,.id]'`
…info for all categories…

curl https://meta.discourse.org/categories.json | jq '.category_list.categories[] | select(.name == "feature").id'
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  • via the JS console in the browser, e.g.:

    > Discourse.Category.findBySlug('feature').id
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