# Can't retrieve posts with API

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [February 17, 2023, 8:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-retrieve-posts-with-api/255455 "2023-02-17T08:56:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-retrieve-posts-with-api/255455/3 "2023-02-17T11:17:20Z")

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Hi @RGJ, I noticed I’m able to retrieve individual posts if they have been in the list originally retrieved by `posts.json`. I used the code snippet below

```plaintext
url = "https://forum.algovera.ai/posts.json"

username = "algovera"

params = {'Api-Key': api_key, "Api-Username": username}

r = requests.get(url = url, params = params)

data = r.json()

```

Then I tried changing this call to `https://forum.algovera.ai/posts/{id}.json"`, where the ID was taken from the URL of the particular post I was looking at.

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