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) and some other users don’t. Currently when I call the Discourse API to get what I need, I use a system API key. This gives me results that include not only the hidden categories, but also always includes any globally-pinned topics at the top of the list (even though a user may have long unpinned those). So I think you can see why I need the latest/top for a specific user, not across the entire forum. And if this functionality is possible by calling with a user API key, then it’s a different problem-- it seems very clumsy to have to create a user API key (programmatically) every time I want to retrieve these results for a user. (And presumably destroy the API key right after, since I don’t need it for anything else.) Is that the only way? I propose a solution where if you call latest.json or top.json with a system API key, those endpoints could take an optional user ID parameter to limit the results.

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/latest.json /latest/username.json /username/latest /latest/username /latest/4.json (using user ID instead of username) etc. I can’t seem to find it :-\

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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