Get only top level posts in topic via discourse API

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

@coopaloop

I would like to be able to get the 20 most recent posts that are top level on a topic without having to recursively re-fetch and filter post replies until I have 20. Is there a filter for this and I have just missed it somewhere in the api?

We now have the filter_top_level_replies=true query parameter that will handle this for you.

Here is an example of it here on meta https://meta.discourse.org/t/linkify-words-in-post/82193.json?filter_top_level_replies=true