I’m using the API to delete a category and all related topics. Here is what I do: I get the category topic list I iterate over category topics and delete them I delete the empty category The category “about” topic cannot be deleted. This is ok, because it is automatically removed when deleting th…

A good approximation should be requesting /t/<id>/1.json and checking for this property: [image] If missing, it’s probably the about post. (There might be other reasons for not being able to delete it.) You might be better off running a Ruby script, which will be able to do something like this w…

Thanks a lot, @fefrei . Your advice about the Rails console incited me to look deeper into the category descriptor for a topic_id field. And I found… a topic_url field! Getting the topic_id is then just a matter of: const topic_id = parseInt(topic_url.split('/').pop()) Thanks again!

How to identify "about" topics?

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) July 1, 2017, 10:18am 4

Good catch! I saw that, but didn’t notice it, because I had remembered that there was an id.

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