# Difficult to work out reason for Http 422 error in api

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/difficult-to-work-out-reason-for-http-422-error-in-api/138141>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 9, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difficult-to-work-out-reason-for-http-422-error-in-api/138141 "2020-01-09T11:56:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![paultaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paultaylor/32/166024_2.png) [@paultaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paultaylor)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difficult-to-work-out-reason-for-http-422-error-in-api/138141/4 "2020-01-09T19:27:14Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> When publishing posts to Discourse with the API, you can set the `skip_validations` parameter to `true` to avoid `422` errors for posts that would be disallowed by your site’s settings.

That is great, thankyou.  
But wish I had known about this before, is it documented at [https://docs.discourse.org/](https://docs.discourse.org/) I can’t see it ?

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