# How do I get all posts from a specific category?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [31 juli 2015 om 01:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589 "2015-07-31T01:26:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@chenny408](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chenny408)
#### Post date: [31 juli 2015 om 01:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/1 "2015-07-31T01:26:46Z")
Is there a way to get all the posts from a certain category by a specific user?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [31 juli 2015 om 01:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/2 "2015-07-31T01:27:55Z")
Something like this?
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=category%3Abug%20user%3Acpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=category%3Abug%20user%3Acpradio)
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### Author:  [@chenny408](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chenny408)
#### Post date: [3 augustus 2015 om 18:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/3 "2015-08-03T18:59:18Z")
i didnt see it in any of the posts.. is there a specific URL i can query?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [3 augustus 2015 om 19:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/4 "2015-08-03T19:03:39Z")
Don’t look at the results, look at the URL and how it is querying for a category and a specific user.
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### Author:  [@chenny408](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chenny408)
#### Post date: [3 augustus 2015 om 20:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/5 "2015-08-03T20:45:51Z")
thanks got it, is there any way to get the raw data? i saw a search() function in the API, but not sure how to include the parameters.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [3 augustus 2015 om 21:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/6 "2015-08-03T21:32:27Z")
> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …
gives you
[https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=category%3Abug+user%3Acpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=category%3Abug+user%3Acpradio)
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### Author:  [@chenny408](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chenny408)
#### Post date: [4 augustus 2015 om 16:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/7 "2015-08-04T16:35:04Z")
awesome thanks.. anyone know how to use the Ruby gem to call this?
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api)
I see in the source code, but wasnt able to create the right parameters to successfully retrieve the query results.
```
# @param term [String] a search term
# @param options [Hash] A customizable set of options
# @option options [String] :type_filter Returns results of the specified type.
# @return [Array] Return results as an array of Hashes.
def search(term, options={})
response = get('/search/query', options.merge(term: term))
response[:body]
end
```
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [4 augustus 2015 om 16:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/8 "2015-08-04T16:37:39Z")
Sorry, I’m not very keen on Ruby, but it should be as simple as sending a HTTP Get request to [https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=category%3Abug+user%3Acpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=category%3Abug+user%3Acpradio) and just replacing the string sent as q=
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [4 augustus 2015 om 17:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/9 "2015-08-04T17:31:31Z")
Looks like it would be `api_object.get('/search', {q: 'category:bug user:cpradio'})`
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 december 2025 om 11:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-all-posts-from-a-specific-category/31589/10 "2025-12-04T11:36:52Z")