# Retrieving post.raw only works right after creating post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/retrieving-post-raw-only-works-right-after-creating-post/115267>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 16, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retrieving-post-raw-only-works-right-after-creating-post/115267 "2019-04-16T23:17:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retrieving-post-raw-only-works-right-after-creating-post/115267/2 "2019-04-17T02:05:28Z")

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This is by design, we prefer to keep our topic payload smaller so if you need raw you have to ask for it on-demand.

Otherwise we would be shipping data to all clients that they do not need the vast majority of the time.

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