# Determining if the authenticated API user has liked the post in the getTopic API response
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566 "2020-04-02T10:57:18Z")
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### Author:  [@benbowler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benbowler)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566/1 "2020-04-02T10:57:18Z")
I’ve been working on a Wordpress commenting plugin for the last week and have had great success connecting to, creating posts and updating data via the Discourse API and my fork of the discourse-php-API plugin - [Work through the createPost request to get it working by benbowler · Pull Request #14 · communiteq/discourse-api-php · GitHub](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-api-php/pull/14)
Looking at the /posts response I can see the actions summary response for each post and get the total count of likes.
```
actions_summary: Array(6)
0: {id: 2, count: 1, can_act: true}
1: {id: 3, can_act: true}
2: {id: 4, can_act: true}
3: {id: 8, can_act: true}
4: {id: 6, can_act: true}
5: {id: 7, can_act: true}
length: 6
__proto__ : Array(0)
```
But can\_act is true regardless of whether the user has liked the post or not. How do you show the correctly?
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566/2 "2020-04-02T11:31:14Z")
If the user you’re using with the API (`Api-Username`) has liked a post, you should see `acted: true`
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### Author:  [@benbowler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benbowler)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566/3 "2020-04-02T11:34:04Z")
> [@Arkshine](#):
>
> acted: true
Hmm, let me take a look.
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### Author:  [@benbowler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benbowler)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566/4 "2020-04-02T11:41:29Z")
I’ve got it. The plugin wasn’t requesting based on the passed user. I’ll update the library to help anyone in future.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566/5 "2024-04-19T16:37:19Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-if-the-authenticated-api-user-has-liked-the-post-in-the-gettopic-api-response/146566/6 "2024-04-19T20:39:42Z")