We want to get all of the first posts in a category (which we are using as wikis but not actually wikis). Preferably, we’d like to avoid having to do one request per topic/post. The best way have so far is using search to get topics, and then get the topics one by one and take the first post out o…

Best API for All First Posts in a Category

blake (Blake Erickson) April 24, 2025, 6:24pm 8

I think the data explorer query route mentioned above would be worth trying out. This way you could make one request per category.

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