# Topic duplicate

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-duplicate/143499
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 6, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-duplicate/143499 "2020-03-06T11:01:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Sasha\_Pakulev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sasha_pakulev/32/171970_2.png) [@Sasha\_Pakulev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sasha_Pakulev)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-duplicate/143499/1 "2020-03-06T11:01:47Z")

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We use api for topic posting and somehow created two topics in one category with same name (this function is disabled in settings). And if I understand correctly, as a response on such post request we get duplicate topic error.

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-duplicate/143499/2 "2020-03-06T16:45:32Z")

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If you want to create two topics with the same title through the Discourse API, set `skip_validations` to `true` as a parameter in your API request.