# How to get mentions for a specific user via the API?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-mentions-for-a-specific-user-via-the-api/203113
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-mentions-for-a-specific-user-via-the-api/203113 "2021-09-09T20:43:35Z")
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### Author: ![j127](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j127/32/79093_2.png) [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-mentions-for-a-specific-user-via-the-api/203113/2 "2021-09-09T21:11:49Z")

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I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but I have my main forum post [webhooks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-webhooks/49045) into a Firebase cloud function (any backend would work). If you do something like that, the backend could read the content of the posts, looking for `@-mentions`.

I use the webhooks to scan the content and post notifications to Slack when something needs attention on short notice.

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