Here’s my use case: I want to show the top 5 latest and hottest topics on my forum home page. I need it to be filtered by what is appropriate for a particular Discourse user - for example, some of my users have access to a private category (which has topics that should bubble up to latest/hottest) a…

Hi @sam oh, fantastic! What’s the endpoint, then? I do have an all-users system API key. [image] The normal endpoint, that gives me all latest, unfiltered: /latest.json User-specific endpoints that I’ve tried, that don’t work (where username is the name of a user in my forums): /username/lates…

Discourse API Docs You should specify the username in Api-Username like the example in the above doc.

Possible to use system API key to get "hot" and "latest" topics for specific user?

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sam (Sam Saffron) April 27, 2020, 1:49am 2

If you create an all users api key you can specify the user it runs as. It then impersonates that user.

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