# Raw Post Body for POST API
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128 "2018-04-12T04:09:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Nopsled](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nopsled)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128/1 "2018-04-12T04:09:21Z")
Is there a way to view an existing post I’ve created and what that looks like if I want to use it for a a template when making a POST api request with the “raw” field?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128/2 "2018-04-12T14:50:25Z")
There are probably many ways of doing this like using the chrome dev tools, looking in the db, but here is one way: If you can get the post id which you can do by going to the topic url and append `.json`. For example this topic:
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128.json`
Then you can get the post id from the json:
`{"post_stream":{"posts":[{"id":409746,`
Then go to:
`https://meta.discourse.org/posts/409746.json`
and you can see the ‘raw’ field:
> “Is there a way to view an existing post I’ve created and what that looks like if I want to use it for a a template when making a POST api request with the "raw" field?\n\nThanks!”
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### Author:  [@Nopsled](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nopsled)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128/3 "2018-04-19T02:23:09Z")
Love it. Thank you!!
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-post-body-for-post-api/85128/4 "2024-06-08T12:37:38Z")
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