# Can't retrieve posts with API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-retrieve-posts-with-api/255455>\
**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, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-retrieve-posts-with-api/255455/5 "2023-02-17T11:38:08Z")

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Oh right, thank you. That worked, so what would I need to call if I want to retrieve the latest topics and then the raw text for the first post in each topic? I saw the List Topics call in the docs but I’m not sure what the slug should be.

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