How to add and remove a flag for a post in a plugin

Hi!,
How can we add a flag to a post, and also remove the flag of the post using the discourse functions?

Hi,

Yes, you can! Following Reverse engineer the Discourse API, you can figure out how to do it.

In your case, it’s a POST request to /post_actions, with the following possible payload:

field descritpion
id The post ID
post_action_type_id The post action type ID
message Message used with notify_user and notify_moderators actions types
is_warning Whether you flag a topic
take_action Whether to agree with the flag and hide the post immediately
queue_for_review Whether to queue immediately for review
flag_topic Whether you flag a topic
action type ID
off_topic 3
inappropriate 4
spam 6
notify_user 7
notify_moderators 8

To delete a flag, you can send a DELETE request to /post_actions/<post_id> and as payload, post_action_type_id.

Hope that helps! :+1:

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Can I use it in developing a plugin, and is there any other function to achieve this?