Hi, I’m using Discourse API for get the latest topics for specific category(works great!): http://haxe.org.il/c/15/l/latest.json? but I want to get excerpt for all topics not just topics… How can I do that? Thanks, Michael

[image] michael_solomon: but I want to get excerpt for all topics not just topics…How can I do that? There currently isn’t a get parameter to request excerpts, but it’s on the list of feature requests.

Hi. It has been a few years, is it still impossible to do? I’m looking to display my lastest Discourse posts on a WP site and that would be an excellent feature.

Yeah this exists if you install this plugin: [image] Discourse Tooltips Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Tooltips allows for the previewing of the contents of topics on hover. hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tooltips open_book Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features [screenshot] In the future the plugin will show more tooltips but this seemed like a good start slight_smile Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-06-03T22:01:04Z (UTC) play_button Check document Per: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tooltips/blob/master/app/controllers/discourse_tooltips/tooltip_previews_controller.rb @codinghorror I wonder should we just roll in the functionality of discourse tooltip, it will help keep it more stable over time and helps a tiny bit in some desktop situations.

I am fairly strongly opposed, because hover means nothing on touch and we should not be relying on non-touch behaviors at all. And given that the world will be 99.9% smartphone usage soon.. it’s backwards thinking.

Hi, I’ve installed and enabled this plugin. It works but I still don’t have the excerpts from other topics than pinned in top.json data.

I believe you need to do another request for the excerpts, like: assets/javascripts/mixins/topic-hover-extension.js.es6 34e3ed208 // Let's actually fetch the next few topic ids too, assuming the user will // mouse over more below let $siblings = $parentTopicId.nextAll(`[data-topic-id]:lt(${READ_AHEAD})`); $siblings.each((idx, s) => { let siblingId = parseInt(s.getAttribute('data-topic-id')); if (!_cached[siblingId]) { topicIds.push(siblingId); } }); _promise = ajax("/tooltip-previews", { data: { topic_ids: topicIds } }); _promise.then(r => { if (r && r.excerpts) { _.merge(_cached, r.excerpts); } if (_inside) { renderTooltip($this, _cached[topicId].excerpt); } }).catch(() => { // swallow errors - was probably aborted!

Hi, I know this is an old topic, but I am having the same issue. My rss feed is working fine, but I rather use the Json one as it is more flexible. So I have a php plugin that pulls discourse json feed ( latest, top, etc), everything works fine… expect the excerpt Is there is reason why there is no post description on the Json feed? How can I fix this ? Thanks.

Hi, I had the same problem and managed to do it by fetching topic again to get needed data. I did that in topic-list-item.js component, by using Ember.PromiseProxyMixin. How to use it, read here: Use Ember.PromiseProxyMixin in a theme Code looks like something like this: // I've used custom memoize function, to lower the number of requests const getTopic = memoize(id => ajax(`/t/${id}.json`).then(data => data)); // ... // Inside of component @discourseComputed("topic") topicPromise(topic) { return getTopic(topic.id); }, @discourseComputed("topicPromise") topicProxy() { const promise = this.get("topicPromise"); return promise && PromiseObject.create({ promise }); }, postStream: reads("topicProxy.content.post_stream"), @discourseComputed("postStream") excerpt(postStream) { if (!this.get("postStream")) return false; return `${stripHtml(postStream.posts[0].cooked).slice(0, 150)}...`; }, stripHtml is custom function to remove html from first post. In topic-list-item.hbs you would have {{#if topicProxy.isFulfilled}} {{#if excerpt}} {{html-safe excerpt}} {{/if}} {{/if}}

Are you making an extra request for each topic in the list to fetch the excerpt?

Unfortunately, yes. I know that’s hit on performance, but I don’t make the decisions, if you know what I mean.

You gonna love this [image] Discourse as a simple personal blog engine Community Building There is a hidden site setting for this grinning rails c SiteSetting.always_include_topic_excerpts = true I believe it just add the data to the JS model, so you still need a client change to actually show it.

Get excerpt for regular topics

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riking (Kane York) September 19, 2015, 10:57pm 2

There currently isn’t a get parameter to request excerpts, but it’s on the list of feature requests.

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Get excerpt for regular topics

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