# Topicslug with numbers gets translated into topic id?

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**Created:** [3월 25, 2019, 9:51오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topicslug-with-numbers-gets-translated-into-topic-id/112491 "2019-03-25T09:51:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [3월 25, 2019, 1:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topicslug-with-numbers-gets-translated-into-topic-id/112491/5 "2019-03-25T13:39:41Z")

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> [@pontus.dualdecade](#):
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> We do this lazily, so the client predicts the topic slug

Right. Then you’ll need to make sure that your titles won’t start with numbers.

> [@pontus.dualdecade](#):
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> Or, if there is a way to get topic id by topic slug only that would be great in our case.

I think you can get that from the API. Search “reverse engineer api”

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