Just to understand, the API Discourse docs mention this kind of… structure… { "post[raw]": "string", "post[raw_old]": "string", "post[edit_reason]": "string", "post[cooked]": "string" } Before I attempt this, does this mean, or well.. what does this mean? does this mean: {post: {raw: ..., raw_ol…

I’m not actually sure what raw_old is for at the moment, but you just need to use the raw field and it will replace the entire post. So, in your code you would fetch the post you want to edit, add your line to the top, then update the post using the raw field. It might be helpful to see how Discour…

[image] blake: documented in the discourse_api gem Just a question on this, are you referring to different documentation then what is defined at Discourse API Docs ? That would be interesting… however I am only going by the API docs. My simple goal is to simply add a comment + link below the…

From the above, and from attempting, you can not update a post using “cooked” as the API documentation states, it is however possible with “raw”, all attempts I made using “cooked” kept giving me back an error that my post was invalid as it was under 20 characters, or not a clear sentence … However…

There is a slight discrepancy in API Docs : Documentation says: PUT /posts/{id}.json with payload Content type: application/json { "post[raw]": "string", "post[raw_old]": "string", "post[edit_reason]": "string", "post[cooked]": "string" } but this only works with PUT /posts/{id} and Conte…

Yes, thanks, I realized this after attempting a few Postman requests and playing around with it… also in my attempts, the “cooked” seemed to do nothing… and I’m still not sure what “raw_old” is.

This got bumped today and is assigned to me. Maybe it can be unassigned :slight_smile: In any case, the documentation is now correct: https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Posts/operation/updatePost .

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simon October 31, 2023, 8:29pm 9

This got bumped today and is assigned to me. Maybe it can be unassigned

In any case, the documentation is now correct: https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Posts/operation/updatePost.

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