# API: Getting all posts in a topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-getting-all-posts-in-a-topic/41018
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-getting-all-posts-in-a-topic/41018 "2016-03-14T14:30:32Z")
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### Author: ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-getting-all-posts-in-a-topic/41018/5 "2016-03-14T15:43:30Z")

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Also its probably a good idea to still break up fetching all the posts into multiple requests rather than 1 big one. So if you have a topic with 100 posts. You should break it up into 5 smaller requests fetching 20 posts at a time.

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