Delete Post from a Topic Using discourse API

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Is it possible to delete post from a Topic using Discourse API?

Corresponding user can only delete their POST.

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Yes, if you can do it with the UI, you can do it via the API call. See the howto topic here titled “How to reverse engineer the Discourse API” for details.

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@User143 Review this topic:

and and this text file specifically

https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api/blob/master/routes.txt#L71-L78

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I reviewed with this topic but i need to delete particular post from a topic.

I just tried with the following HTTP post but its not working

http://discourse.url.com/posts/1314/destroy_many/?api_key=test_beabcf136e&api_username=test_name

For delete we need to use this URL.Is it right?

destroy_many_posts DELETE /posts/destroy_many(.:format)

I don’t have any clear picture about this API URL. Can you please give the example for deleting the post

When I delete post from chrome using the delete button. I am getting the following header from chrome but i don’t know how can i call this DELETE post API

Remote Address:120.80.217.8:80
Request URL:http://discourse.url.com/posts/1314
Request Method:DELETE
Status Code:200 OK
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Look at it the info from Chrome again.

Request URL: http://discourse.url.com/posts/1314

The URL is the key here. It is accessing post id 1314. Now look at the Method

Request Method: DELETE

It is using DELETE, instead of POST, GET, etc.

Combine the two and it will delete the post (so long as you also pass in the API_KEY and API_Username

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