# How to get a previous version/revision of a post through the API

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-a-previous-version-revision-of-a-post-through-the-api/58164 "2017-03-01T12:53:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-a-previous-version-revision-of-a-post-through-the-api/58164/2 "2017-03-01T16:57:07Z")

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Call `GET` method to the URL `/posts/POSTID/revisions/VERSION.json`

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