# Scraping excerpts with latest.json (or plugin)

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 2, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scraping-excerpts-with-latest-json-or-plugin/91428 "2018-07-02T22:10:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scraping-excerpts-with-latest-json-or-plugin/91428/4 "2018-07-02T23:00:14Z")

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Hmm, I thought getting the Category excerpts was what it was intended to do. But looking again, you’re correct, it does mention topic excerpts.

I notice arguments are being passed into the function, but I don’t see where they are defined. I have a feeling I’m missing something obvious. It’s a heat wave here and that isn’t helping me think (that’s the excuse I’m sticking to)

One of the arguments is “feed” and I know excerpts are in RSS feeds, so unless there’s some magic happening that crucial bit is missing in the example?

As for getting what you want “in a single request” I guess that will depend on what you want.

Did you already try it?

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