How to unlike a topic or post

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Here is a guide that will help you in this situation:

Reverse engineer the Discourse API

Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. 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: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select XHR filter: [image] Perform the op…

If you look at the browser network, you can see the request made when you unlike:

DELETE /post_actions/<post_id>

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The action_summary IDs represent the actions on the post:

1: bookmark
2. like
3. flag off-topic
4. flag inappropriate
5. vote
6. flag notify user
7. flag notify moderator
8. flag spam