From https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta2-security-fix-and-more/218086: Add support for external_id to be used when creating and fetching topics. This is an API-only change I have several (experimental at this point) api-based bots which link topics to external resources (like related bug or…

What drove this feature is that a lot of sites need to interact with discourse via some other external application but they often don’t have a good way of keeping track of all the internal discourse id’s for things to keep things in sync. Now that you can create a topic with an external_id it can be…

Thanks @blake . So, “external_id” can be arbitrary from my side? For https://ask.fedoraproject.org/c/common-issues/141/none , I’ve been doing something fairly horrible — getting the top post and then scanning the link_counts list for URLs which match the pattern of the external resource.

[image] mattdm: So, “external_id” can be arbitrary from my side? Yes, as long as it falls under the format of a 50 character string including - and _.

Ah, good to know. So, bug numbers, not full URLs. :slight_smile:

Can someone PLEASE expose external_id to the embed.js interface? I really need to show posts on an external page connected to an external_id where I don’t know the topic_id.

Hello Aaron :slight_smile: No need to posts the same question over multiple places. Let’s continue in your original topic :+1: [image] Expose external_id in embed.js Feature I am needing to load posts on an external site where I don’t know the post_id but I D…

What is the new `external_id` feature for topics used for?

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Expose external_id in embed.js Feature embedding	4	729	October 3, 2023
Embed Discourse using external_id Development embedding	3	962	October 3, 2023
How to assign a `external_id` to a topic? Development rest-api	2	373	October 17, 2023
API topic's external_ID can't be reused after deleting a topic and creating a new one Feature rest-api	1	406	June 9, 2024
Re-use of `external_id` after a Topic is deleted Support	4	685	August 30, 2022

What is the new `external_id` feature for topics used for?

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