# Viewing open / archived or closed topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/viewing-open-archived-or-closed-topics/11915
**Category:** General
**Created:** [1월 13, 2014, 6:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/viewing-open-archived-or-closed-topics/11915 "2014-01-13T06:16:31Z")
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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [1월 3, 2015, 1:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/viewing-open-archived-or-closed-topics/11915/27 "2015-01-03T13:25:52Z")

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Taken from our Discourse Instance:

You can append these to the querystring of most URLs to get a custom filtered view

## Ones that I am able to use

**?status=\_**

- open - Open Topics Only
- closed - Closed Topics Only
- archived - Archived Topics Only
- visible - Visible Topics Only
- invisible - Invisible Topics Only
- deleted - Deleted Topics Only (this is available as of 1.2.0 beta3)

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**?search=\_**

Creates a full page of search results instead of the limited search view using the search icon. Replace the \_ with your search terms.

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**?state=\_**

- muted - Show topics I’ve muted
- regular - Show topics I have set to regular
- tracking - Show topics I’m tracking
- watching - Show topics I’m watching

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**?ascending=true**

Show the topics by date in ascending order (value must be “true”, default is descending order)

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**?order=\_**

- likes - by like count
- op\_likes - by likes on the Original Post
- views - by views
- posts - by post count (replies)
- activity - by last activity date (a.k.a. bumped\_at)
- posters - by the number of participants
- category - by category
- created - by topic creation date

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**?max\_posts=\_**

Returns topics with post counts of \_ or lower.

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**?min\_posts=\_**

Returns topics with post counts of \_ or greater.

## I can only get these to work on the Latest page

**?topic\_ids=\_**

Accepts a comma delimited string of topic\_ids.

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**?exclude\_category=\_**

Accepts a category name (case-sensitive). Doesn’t seem to work for sub-categories.

## Ones that I can’t seem to get to work…

**?no\_definitions=1**

Hides the Category Definition Topics

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**?category=\_**

Shows topics for a given category.

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**?category=\_&no\_subcategories=1**

Hides sub-categories for a given category (must be used with category=\_\_)

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**?limit=true&per\_page=\_&page=\_**

Limit the number of topics per page?

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**?except\_topic\_ids=\_**

Accepts a comma delimited string of topic\_ids.

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