# Add data to Post query
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-data-to-post-query/43715
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 5, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-data-to-post-query/43715 "2016-05-05T08:54:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Byrne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Byrne)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-data-to-post-query/43715/1 "2016-05-05T08:54:47Z")
ok so I got a lovely query from @tgxworld some time ago.
```
posts = Post.where('user_id IN (?) OR topic_id IN (?) OR raw LIKE (?)', uid, tid, '%@everyone%' )
.order(created_at: :desc)
.limit(params["total"])
.offset(params["start"])
```
and it is quite useful, but I ain’t sure how to go adding more data to this.
What I’m really looking for is a request like above that returns:
- username
- avatar\_template
- like\_count
pretty much what you would find in:
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157/1.json`
Any Ideas?
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-data-to-post-query/43715/2 "2016-05-05T09:37:54Z")
They are populated by `PostSerializer`. If you use that serializer, they will be already there.
`like_count` for example is included in `actions`.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Byrne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Byrne)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-data-to-post-query/43715/3 "2016-05-06T04:22:24Z")
Thank you great pointer!
My final code ended up looking like:
```
posts = Post.where('user_id IN (?) OR topic_id IN (?) OR raw LIKE (?)', uid, tid, '%@everyone%' )
.order(created_at: :desc)
.limit(params["total"])
.offset(params["start"])
# that cleaned that up
render_json_dump(serialize_data(posts, PostSerializer))
```
And the resulting object contained all that I needed
```
actions_summary: Array[7],
admin:true,
avatar_template:blah/blah.jpg
etc....
```