How to get unread notification / topic count via API?

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

@codinghorror

I do think we should offer a clean howto on this

I updated the api docs for the /notifications endpoint and started a howto for this that we can build upon:

How to get notifications via the API

If you have an existing website or application and you would like to encourage discussion on your Discourse forum it can be helpful to display Discourse notifications inside of your application. This guide will show you how to use the Discourse API to fetch notifications for a user and how to mark them as read. The recommended way of using the API is to have your application make back-end requests to Discourse and then pass that data to the front-end/presentation layer of your application. Che…