How to get posts viewed by a user via APIs?

[armingrudd (Armin Ghassemi Rudd)]

Hi,

Is it possible to get the posts (IDs) that user has viewed? The use case here is to filter topics within a timeframe and count viewed topics in the custom timeframe.

Since “post read” is one of the user statistics in /u, I thought it should be possible to get that in a custom timeframe as well.

[Lilly]

Have you had a look through the rest API documentation?

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