When creating a new category, I must have an automatically created post, as: Every category has an initial "About this category" topic.
So, I use the API to create the ‘group one’ category, then I get the topic-url from the result, and I can then use the API to change the title of the “About this category” topic.
curl -X PUT -d title="This is my new title for group one category" -d api_key=blahblah -d api_username=system http://localhost:3000/t/about-the-group-one-category/20
I can then use the API to get the latest posts in that newly created category,
http://localhost:3000/c/group-one/l/latest.json
which gives me the default post and its id. If the id of the post is 55, then I notice that (using the reverse engineering approach), the id that must be updated is the id + 3 = 58
So, I can use this to change the default text of the post:
curl -X PUT -d post[raw]="This is the new text for the About this category initial post" -d api_key=blahblah 7 -d api_username=system http://localhost:3000/posts/58
Is there a better way to get the id for updaing, or can I be certain that it will always be the post id + 3?