Hi guys, I’m trying to integrate Discourse in another front-end and would like to show the latest posts on the frontpage. Im querying the API with for example https://meta.discourse.org/posts.json but don’t get a consistent amount of posts back. Is there any way to show the latest n posts. I tried…

@swarnava what is the difference between /lastest.json and /posts.json? Edit after actually testing instead of just asking :slight_smile: : /latest.json returns the latest Topics /posts.json returns the latest Posts Is there a way to filter any of those by date? I’m also integrating Discourse wi…

It’s also still not clear to me how to get the latest n posts, not topics.

So the questions we have with @rmens are: How far back in time/amount of posts does /posts.json get you? Is this configurable in any way from the API call? edit: This thread looks promising: Latest posts API pagination - #4 by blake I’ll post my findings tomorrow after testing this a bit more

/posts.json?before=X returns the first 50 posts with an ID lower than X. So if you want the get the lastest 75 posts for example, you can do: GET /posts.json to get the last 50 GET /posts.json?before=x where x is the ID of the oldest post in the set of the previous GET call. Get the first 25 posts…

You got it, that’s how that endpoint is supposed to be used :slight_smile: (although you can just do +/-50 for pages after the 2nd) And, if you run the script again, and know what number you stopped/started at…

This helped a lot. Thanks guys!

I have been relying on the before= parameter, however after noticing my code running in an infinite loop, I see that the API docs no longer include this parameter. Is there another way to accomplish this now – how can we get more than the last 200 posts? Discourse API Docs …

How to get more posts from posts.json

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swarnava (Swarnava) April 3, 2018, 5:03pm 2

There is something like that to fetch the latest posts: https://meta.discourse.org/latest.json

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How to get more posts from posts.json

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