# Discourse API Documentation Released!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation-released/58512
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation-released/58512 "2017-03-07T01:29:12Z")
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### Author: ![pztrick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pztrick/32/120845_2.png) [@pztrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pztrick)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation-released/58512/4 "2017-03-08T15:54:56Z")

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Already nostalgic for the old “documentation”!

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. 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: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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