Hi everyone, In case of a 3rd party integration when I send a search request to the API endpoint, I get back post and topic properties such as ID, title, author, etc. My question is: what’s the “correct” way to construct a web accessible URL for a post or a topic? Taking a look to the share links in the forum, I see that they usually follow the https://meta.discourse.org/t/[TOPIC TITLE]/[TOPIC ID]/[COMMENT ID] pattern but I’m not sure this is what I’d need to put together.

[image] balazswmann: what’s the “correct” way to construct a web accessible URL for a post or a topic? domain/t/topic_id/post_id works and will issue a redirect to the canonical URL.

[image] Falco: domain/t/topic_id/post_id I often see domain/t/-/topic_id/post_id. Is one preferred?

Constructing web accessible links to posts and topics programmatically

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balazswmann September 13, 2022, 5:27pm 3

@Falco I see, thank you for the info! That will be perfect I think.

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