# Failed to post a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-post-a-topic/282471>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [October 17, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-post-a-topic/282471 "2023-10-17T01:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-post-a-topic/282471/2 "2023-10-17T01:39:29Z")

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> [@fbpbdmin](#):
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> {‘action’: ‘create\_post’, ‘errors’: [‘Body is too short (minimum is 1 character)’, ‘Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?’]}

Try adding `"skip_validations": true` to the `topic_data`. (There are cases where `true` needs to be enclosed in quotation marks, but I don’t think that’s the case with Python.)

The `skip_validations` parameter will get Discourse to skip performing the validations against site settings like `min topic title length` and `body min entropy`.

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