# API call to unmask all emails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-call-to-unmask-all-emails/71851>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Octobre 11, 2017, 3:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-call-to-unmask-all-emails/71851 "2017-10-11T15:34:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Geoffrey\_Challen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/geoffrey_challen/32/119637_2.png) [@Geoffrey\_Challen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Geoffrey_Challen)\
**Post date:** [Octobre 12, 2017, 1:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-call-to-unmask-all-emails/71851/4 "2017-10-12T13:56:51Z")

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Thanks so much guys! It’s working perfectly now.

FWIW, I was passing `show_emails=1` as part of the query string, when what was needed was `show_emails=true`. Perhaps working with JavaScript has spoiled me WRT truthy values, but it would be nice the API was a bit more forgiving 🙂.

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