Updating topic body via the API

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I’m trying to update a topic body via the API, but I’m not sure how to do it.

I tried to use POST /posts/ and providing it with the topic_id which only creates a new post for a topic.

I also tried PUT /posts/:id but providing it with the topic id doesn’t update the topic. I actually get a 403.

PUT /t/:slug/:id doesn’t seem to be what I’m looking for.

Any advice here, please?

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The official docs say it’s a PUT for /posts/:id with post[raw] in FormData:

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Where :id is equal to the topic ID in this case?

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No, it’s the post id.

On Discourse land, a topic it’s just a bunch of posts. A topic has no body, the first post of the topic is the body.

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Got it. http://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Topics%2Fpaths%2F~1t~1{id}.json%2Fget

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It really depends on how you are managing stuff.

If it’s a sync, you can save the post id of the topic when you create it, so it’s easy when you need to update it later (if that’s a common operation).

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