Custom tag query for homepage?

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

The custom homepage you’re referencing pulls in the topics from a tag using AJAX and an endpoint like this:

https://meta.discourse.org/tags/theme.json

If you want to get the contents of a search (can you clarify what you mean by “all the other stuff”?):

https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=reverse%20engineer&expanded=true

For more details about finding the data that populates a specific page, you can look here:

Reverse engineer the Discourse API

Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. 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: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select XHR filter: [image] Perform the op…