# Can a topic be made the site-wide banner via the API?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-topic-be-made-the-site-wide-banner-via-the-api/377350
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [August 5, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-topic-be-made-the-site-wide-banner-via-the-api/377350 "2025-08-05T12:53:25Z")
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### Author: ![craigconstantine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/craigconstantine/32/511195_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-topic-be-made-the-site-wide-banner-via-the-api/377350/1 "2025-08-05T12:53:25Z")

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Something like the way we can pin topics via this API call?

> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Topics/operation/updateTopicStatus)**

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-topic-be-made-the-site-wide-banner-via-the-api/377350/2 "2025-08-05T12:58:48Z")

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You can do anything you can do in the interface

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

I think it’s something like `PUT /t/{id}/make-banner.json`

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### Author: ![craigconstantine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/craigconstantine/32/511195_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-a-topic-be-made-the-site-wide-banner-via-the-api/377350/3 "2025-08-05T13:34:10Z")

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Terrific!

Tell me the specifics, please. (And perhaps add an API docs page while you’re in there. 😉