Topic views doesn't update on rest API requests

sam · March 24, 2025, 10:24pm

API requests don’t track views, unconditionally, by design.

lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb

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          def self.log_request(data)
            if data[:is_api]
              ApplicationRequest.increment!(:api)
            elsif data[:is_user_api]
              ApplicationRequest.increment!(:user_api)
            elsif data[:track_view]
              if data[:is_crawler]
                ApplicationRequest.increment!(:page_view_crawler)
                WebCrawlerRequest.increment!(data[:user_agent])
              elsif data[:has_auth_cookie]
                ApplicationRequest.increment!(:page_view_logged_in)
                ApplicationRequest.increment!(:page_view_logged_in_mobile) if data[:is_mobile]
          
                if data[:explicit_track_view]
                  # Must be a browser if it had this header from our ajax implementation
                  ApplicationRequest.increment!(:page_view_logged_in_browser)
                  ApplicationRequest.increment!(:page_view_logged_in_browser_mobile) if data[:is_mobile]
          
                  if data[:topic_id].present? && data[:current_user_id].present?
                    TopicsController.defer_topic_view(

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I guess you are after some feature request here to allow you to track views via our API, recategorizing.

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Topic views doesn't update on rest API requests

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