# How to reply to Topic reply?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reply-to-topic-reply/194297
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 18, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reply-to-topic-reply/194297 "2021-06-18T12:40:46Z")
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### Author: ![Nacho\_Caballero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nacho_caballero/32/130189_2.png) [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reply-to-topic-reply/194297/2 "2021-06-18T12:50:55Z")

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Have you tried this?

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

It should be a simple POST

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