Hi, I’m still importing data from an old app into our new Discourse. I can’t create a category with its description with the following API call : curl -X POST "https://site-discourse/categories.json" \ -H "Api-Key: api-key" \ -H "Api-Username: api-username" \ -d "name=categorie test" \ -d "descri…

Hi :blob_wave: The description of a category is the content of the automatically created “About” topic. The default text is probably considered “null” until it’s edited. I think there’s no available “description” parameter in the request to create a category, and you need to make another API reque…

Thank you for your reply I created this script allowing you to create a category and then modify its description: curl -X POST "https://site-discourse/categories.json" \ -H "Api-Key: api-key" \ -H "Api-Username: api-username" \ -d "name=Catégorie 1" sleep 2 latest_posts_response=$(curl -X …

No description in a category via API

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) September 1, 2023, 5:59pm 4

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No description in a category via API

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