# Discourse dislike Api?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dislike-api/55269
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dislike-api/55269 "2017-01-06T08:17:23Z")
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### Author: ![geoff777](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/geoff777/32/202388_2.png) [@geoff777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/geoff777)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dislike-api/55269/3 "2017-01-06T09:15:06Z")

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Hi,

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-down-voting-be-core-functionality-in-discourse/40](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-down-voting-be-core-functionality-in-discourse/40)

and if you read the API docs … the answer is no.

> [@Discourse REST API Documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706):
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> Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: [https://docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org)information_source Authentication API requests must use HTTP header based authentication. Pass your Api-Key and Api-Username as HTTP headers. Authentication via query parameters or request body is not supported (this was removed in April 2020). Please see the example cURL request below. The only API endpoints that continue to support credentials in query parameters are requests to…

There is a topic rating plugin. You can give 1 star if you don’t like.

> [@Topic Ratings Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-ratings-plugin/39578/66):
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> I haven’t looked at that yet. I can take a look on the weekend. Could you explain the existing Discourse behavior (I’ve never really investigated it in Discourse before), and how you expect ratings to fit into that, to give me a head start?

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