Hello, I’m trying to get the number of likes for a single post via the API, but can’t seem to find it… I see a like_count for the entire topic, but can’t seem to find the individual like count for each post in either /t/123.json or /posts/222.json. I noticed that I can get a list of users who lik…

I’m an idiot! Found it under "actions_summary": {"id":2,"count":5,"acted":true} Well, hope this helps someone else!

[image] mr8: actions_summary Love you man! that helps me a lot!

Unfortunately Discourse removes that property if the post has no likes Also it is not in the API doc: Discourse API Docs , Discourse API Docs Thus, unreliable and code gets polluted by unnecessary “if property object exist” Should be improved, at best.

[image] Beda: Also it is not in the API doc Thank you for the feedback. Ya, looking at the api docs there isn’t any info on fetching likes, just on creating them. I’ll start with improving the api docs in that department.

Definitely love you for that. If I can help with this (is it human written?!) let me know But I suspect you use something like PHPdoc, just for Ruby or whatever it is that Discourse is written in? I have no experience in that language so if it is programmatic I cannot help with it (yet) …

[image] Beda: is it human written?! I’d say it’s 50/50. There is still manual work, but they are generated from rspec tests using a tool called rswag. [image] Contributing to the Discourse API documentation Contributing bookmark This is a guide for cont…

Get number of likes for a single post?

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blake (Blake Erickson) March 20, 2023, 2:27pm 11

I’d say it’s 50/50. There is still manual work, but they are generated from rspec tests using a tool called rswag.

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