# API call for Featured Topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-call-for-featured-topics/399867
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [April 3, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-call-for-featured-topics/399867 "2026-04-03T12:04:19Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-call-for-featured-topics/399867/2 "2026-04-03T12:17:04Z")

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If your `Desktop category page style` setting has featured topics, then `/categories.json` will have the featured topics for each category in the `topics` list in each category in the `categories` list (that may be confusing, my apologies).

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