# No excerpt property in categories API response

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-excerpt-property-in-categories-api-response/405566
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [18 juni 2026 om 07:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-excerpt-property-in-categories-api-response/405566 "2026-06-18T07:10:16Z")
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### Author: ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [18 juni 2026 om 07:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-excerpt-property-in-categories-api-response/405566/1 "2026-06-18T07:10:16Z")

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I was moving the backend of a blog to Discourse and found this API endpoint for listing topics:

> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Categories/operation/listCategoryTopics)**

However, when I list topics using the endpoint (`https://discourse.example.com/c/blog/32/l/latest.json?filter=default`), there is no `excerpt` property.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/6/a/66a423792bd0293fc6a80a8685c151b385ef6895.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/0/7/407597521ae1e495b110d3381eb5b085768be6f8.png)

Did I do something wrong? Is the documentation entry just outdated?

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