# Custom permalinks **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 3, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867 "2017-02-03T15:41:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei) #### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867/4 "2017-02-03T18:45:01Z")
You can use the API to create these. Create a permalink while the Network tab of your browser’s development tools is open to see how it works. You can find more details here: > [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867)._