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You don’t need an API key to do searches.

I’m not sure having an API key could help you resolve your issue more easily.

Here’s an :robot: example Python script that loops my posts (1 post every 3 sec) on meta and returns those having the substring upload:// in the raw content:

import requests
import time

def fetch_posts(page):
    url = f"https://meta.discourse.org/search.json?q=%40cocoquark&page={page}"
    response = requests.get(url)
    return response.json()

def fetch_post_content(post_id):
    url = f"https://meta.discourse.org/posts/{post_id}/raw"
    response = requests.get(url)
    return response.text

def process_posts():
    page = 1
    while True:
        print(f"page {page}")
        data = fetch_posts(page)
        
        for post in data['posts']:
            content = fetch_post_content(post['id'])
            if "upload://" in content:
                print("https://meta.discourse.org/posts/" + str(post['id']))
            time.sleep(3)        
        
        if len(data['posts']) < 50:
            print("No more results.")
            break
        
        page += 1

if __name__ == "__main__":
    process_posts()
Output 
page 1
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1682015
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1677389
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1679834
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1678673
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1679833
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1678629
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1678229
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1676531
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1674982
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1670250
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1674421
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1671959
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1674355
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1673357
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1669322
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1665519
page 2
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1674153
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1670613
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1666606
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1674992
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1672811
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1672050
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1686260
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1684497
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1680692
https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1675012
page 3
No more results.
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