# Mark specific posts as "read" through the API?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-specific-posts-as-read-through-the-api/198701>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-specific-posts-as-read-through-the-api/198701 "2021-07-30T14:53:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![vagosduke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vagosduke/32/196991_2.png) [@vagosduke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vagosduke)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-specific-posts-as-read-through-the-api/198701/2 "2021-07-30T15:16:40Z")

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Well, I’ve reverse-engineered it with the browser.  
the `topic_timings()` must be called using post index in the `timings={}` argument instead of the post ID.

I guess that’s quite acceptable workaround, though I’d like to have a post-id-based method because it’s not very easy to infer index from ids (will need to fetch the actual topic first)

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