Making a difference between public topic and private message on API

Feature
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Hi y’all.
I’ve created a very tiny bot for our discourse installation which fires upon a webhook.
I’ve also connected the bot to Twitter, so every time anybody creates a new topic, a tweet is posted on our Twitter account (Thanks to Abraham for his https://twitteroauth.com)

The thing is that, because of how Discourse is created, everything is a post. Both public and private messages.
In my particular case, here’s the post object from a public post:

stdClass Object
(
    [post] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 909
            [username] => TheChachara
            [avatar_template] => /user_avatar/thechachara.com/thechachara/{size}/46_2.png
            [created_at] => 2019-02-01T11:50:23.974Z
            [cooked] => <p>Posted on a public category.</p>
            [post_number] => 1
            [post_type] => 1
            [updated_at] => 2019-02-01T11:50:23.974Z
            [reply_count] => 0
            [reply_to_post_number] => 
            [quote_count] => 0
            [avg_time] => 
            [incoming_link_count] => 0
            [reads] => 0
            [score] => 0
            [topic_id] => 63
            [topic_slug] => this-is-a-public-topic
            [topic_title] => This is a public topic
            [primary_group_name] => 
            [version] => 1
            [user_title] => 
            [moderator] => 
            [admin] => 1
            [staff] => 1
            [user_id] => 1
            [hidden] => 
            [trust_level] => 1
            [deleted_at] => 
            [user_deleted] => 
            [edit_reason] => 
            [wiki] => 
            [topic_posts_count] => 1
        )

)

On the other hand, this is a private message:

stdClass Object
(
    [post] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 908
            [username] => TheChachara
            [avatar_template] => /user_avatar/thechachara.com/thechachara/{size}/46_2.png
            [created_at] => 2019-02-01T11:37:14.954Z
            [cooked] => <p>Esto es un mensaje de prueba</p>
            [post_number] => 1
            [post_type] => 1
            [updated_at] => 2019-02-01T11:37:14.954Z
            [reply_count] => 0
            [reply_to_post_number] => 
            [quote_count] => 0
            [avg_time] => 
            [incoming_link_count] => 0
            [reads] => 0
            [score] => 0
            [topic_id] => 62
            [topic_slug] => nuevo-mensaje-publicado
            [topic_title] => Nuevo mensaje publicado
            [primary_group_name] => 
            [version] => 1
            [user_title] => 
            [moderator] => 
            [admin] => 1
            [staff] => 1
            [user_id] => 1
            [hidden] => 
            [trust_level] => 1
            [deleted_at] => 
            [user_deleted] => 
            [edit_reason] => 
            [wiki] => 
            [topic_posts_count] => 1
        )

)

I can’t find a way to make a difference between them.

The solution I came to is to set which categories to report by the webhook, but I would like to control it from the bot, because tomorrow (yep, Dory’s memory here) I could add a new category, and forget to allow this category to be checked when sending the webhook.

Is there a way to send more data over the webhook?

TiA people :slight_smile:

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2

You’ll need to look at the topic that the post belongs to. There is a field there that tells you if it is a pm.

3

OK, sorry not to mention. I only process those posts that are

[post_number] => 1

Which means it’s the start of a thread.

Or maybe you’re saying that I can retrieve the more data by requesting the post by its id ?

4

You need to pull the topic record. There is a topic_id field in the post record.

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