# User post\_count is zero in webhook for a user that has posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** webhooks
**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574 "2023-06-07T19:28:02Z")
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### Author:  [@dpb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/1 "2023-06-07T19:28:02Z")
We have a webhook on the event “user\_logged\_in”. The Payload contains the property `post_count` for the user that just logged in. Although the user did write 2 posts, the payload reads `post_count: 0`. This looks like a bug to me.
The receiver of the webhook needs this user stat to decide how to proceed.
The only similar topic I found is this one, might be related but does not talk about the same API: [Category post\_count not incrementing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-post-count-not-incrementing/230788)
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### Author:  [@dpb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/2 "2023-06-07T19:39:06Z")
I have to correct myself: The `post_count` is not _always_ zero. When checking with my own user, the `post_count` was plausible (though I don’t know whether it is accurate or not).
But there is a user on our site, let’s call it user #1234, for which the following holds:
- `SELECT * FROM posts WHERE user_id=1234` returns two entries in the table. These are the posts that are also listed in the user’s profile activity page
- The webhook payload, when this user logs in or out, contains `"post_count": 0`.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/3 "2023-06-08T11:47:14Z")
Hi @dpb,
I tested, and the post count isn’t updated in real-time.
~~My guess is that there’s a Sidekiq job that takes care of that periodically, but I don’t know which one.~~
It doesn’t seem there’s a specific related Sidekiq job 🤔
But I read that this stat is updated at least once a day.
A GET request to [https://your-discourse.org/u/username.json](https://your-discourse.org/u/username.json) will return the right number, though.
If you want a reliable number, make such a request after receiving the webhook payload.
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### Author:  [@dpb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/4 "2023-06-08T16:29:57Z")
Thanks @Canapin for suggesting the GET request to the API.
> [@Canapin](#):
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> But I read that this stat is updated at least once a day.
Well, in our case, the posts have been there for well over a month by now.
Maybe the component that updates this number stopped working at some arbitrary time during one of the updates?
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### Author:  [@dpb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/5 "2023-06-08T16:36:27Z")
> [@Canapin](#):
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> A GET request to [https://your-discourse.org/u/username.json](https://your-discourse.org/u/username.json) will return the right number, though.
Tested it, does not work either. Contains the same information: `post_count: 0`
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### Author:  [@dpb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/6 "2023-06-08T16:46:10Z")
Maybe there is a confusion with “topics” and “posts”. I expected that creating a new topic is just a special type of post. The database structure supports that.
But when checking the user profile statistics, they say something along the lines “2 topics created, 0 posts created”.
So maybe the “post\_count” that I get is rather the _number of replies to topics_ than the number of all posts?
On the other hand, there is a date “last\_posted\_at” which contains the date when the last topic was created. So at least, there is some inconsistency in naming here. I would expect the number “post\_count” to include first posts in new topics, as well.
Anyway, whether this is intended behavior or not, I do not find a `topic_count` or alike in the user json. How do I find out the total number of posts, including new topics?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-count-is-zero-in-webhook-for-a-user-that-has-posts/267574/7 "2023-06-08T17:21:02Z")
> [@dpb](#):
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> Anyway, whether this is intended behavior or not, I do not find a `topic_count` or alike in the user json. How do I find out the total number of posts, including new topics?
My json knowledge is a little fledgling but I can see the `topic_count` in [https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb/summary.json](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpb/summary.json)
