# Set watch\_first\_post via API?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watch-first-post-via-api/137581
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watch-first-post-via-api/137581 "2020-01-02T17:48:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@DDo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DDo)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watch-first-post-via-api/137581/1 "2020-01-02T17:48:14Z")
Can someone push me in the right direction? I want to set a certain category to watch first post when creating a new user via the api.
Didn’ t find it in the fine doc ☹
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watch-first-post-via-api/137581/2 "2020-01-04T11:30:29Z")
Here is the documentation you seek [Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576)
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### Author:  [@DDo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DDo)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watch-first-post-via-api/137581/3 "2020-01-04T17:53:12Z")
Yes, indeed - that looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watch-first-post-via-api/137581/4 "2023-10-30T03:45:30Z")