/t/slug/123.json?post_number=10 gets the 5th post. /t/slug/123.json?post_number=50 gets the 45th post, etc. It’s consistently off by 5. If you want to get all the posts, you have to use pagination, and unless you account for this, you’ll have an incorrect list. I can only guess this was done to inc…

[image] Mark S: gets the 5th post This endpoint promises to return information including the specified post, for example: ○ → curl -s 'https://meta.discourse.org/t/fkb-pro-social-theme/234323.json?post_number=40' | jq .post_stream.posts[].post_number 33 34 35 36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48…

[image] Michael Brown: This endpoint promises to return information including the specified post, ok, but where is that documented? I’m not against pagination.

You can see API documentation here: https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Topics/operation/getSpecificPostsFromTopic

Topic API gets the wrong posts- consistently off by 5

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markschmucker (Mark S) February 18, 2025, 8:43pm 3

ok, but where is that documented?

I’m not against pagination.

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Topic API gets the wrong posts- consistently off by 5

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