Pull or quote content from within the revision history

[michellefs]

Is there a way to view or access revision history other than within the popup?

For example, we built some code to call the Discourse API and pull the HTML of a topic into our product. Could something similar be done to pull HTML content from a specific revision? Additional considerations, we’d need a way to view the data/content in order to determine which revision to use.

[Arkshine]

These are the available endpoints for you to use:

• /posts/<post_id>/revisions/latest.json ^[1]
• /posts/<post_id>/revisions/<revision_id>.json

This should help!

A guide that can help you to determine the API used might also be useful for you:

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 o…

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