# How do I get the latest topics from a specific category via API?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-the-latest-topics-from-a-specific-category-via-api/228017
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-the-latest-topics-from-a-specific-category-via-api/228017 "2022-05-24T21:29:13Z")
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### Author: ![James\_Cribbs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/james_cribbs/32/249821_2.png) [@James\_Cribbs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/James_Cribbs)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-the-latest-topics-from-a-specific-category-via-api/228017/1 "2022-05-24T21:29:13Z")

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I want to grab the latest topics for a specific category via the API, but I don’t see a parameter for category in the Topics call.

How can I do this?

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-the-latest-topics-from-a-specific-category-via-api/228017/3 "2022-05-24T21:35:18Z")

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An example: [https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto/admins/53/l/latest.json?ascending=false](https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto/admins/53/l/latest.json?ascending=false).

See [How to reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576) to learn more about discovering those.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-the-latest-topics-from-a-specific-category-via-api/228017/4 "2022-08-16T05:06:51Z")

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