Whenever I post via the API, I tested it in Postman and it sends the right things to the right category. However, when I more or less copy+paste the same thing with an http POST (via JavaScript), I get everything right…EXCEPT the category (which I thought was the easiest part): [image] I’m just …

Ahhhh apparently error 422 is rate-limiting. The category “number” IS actually “text” (a string). Making bot account admin seemed to do the trick for the limiting (… but why do I have to make it an ADMIN to edit rate limiting? Seems a bit of a dramatic upgrade for such) and “15” as the category as a …

I believe the browser client submits the category as its name; supporting the id was an accident. See also: [image] Reverse engineer the Discourse API Integrations Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do usi…

[image] riking: supporting the id was an accident If it was an accident - that sounds a little cray-cray… [image] Posting to sub category not working for me It’s best to use the category ID integer value as indicated by the docs here: Discourse API Docs … I would stick with integer cat…

Just wanted to clarify that when creating a topic in a category via the API, you specify the category by id now, not by name. [image]

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DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor) September 18, 2017, 8:01pm 4

If it was an accident - that sounds a little cray-cray…

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