# How do I find deleted posts via API?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 15, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-find-deleted-posts-via-api/197200 "2021-07-15T05:12:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![BenKrauth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BenKrauth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenKrauth)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-find-deleted-posts-via-api/197200/3 "2021-07-18T22:44:35Z")

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I use the API to store posts in my database so I don’t have to call the API every time I want to display data for every user. This also allows me to connect the data fully to all of my tables, add it to views, etc.

I then can show information about posts on my website, outside of discourse.

But since there’s apparently no way to find out when posts are deleted, I end up showing some deleted posts and people don’t understand why the links aren’t working right.

I don’t understand why there’s no way to find deleted posts? It seems a very obvious tool. There’s even a field in posts.json for “user deleted”, but this field apparently can never be True, because the posts.json will never show a deleted post. So either that field shouldn’t exist or the posts.json should be showing deleted posts.

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