Discourse

Discourse Topics API

The Topics API from Discourse — 14 operation(s) for topics.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 15

POST /posts.json Creates a new topic, a new post, or a private message #

GET /t/{id}/posts.json Get specific posts from a topic #

GET /t/{id}.json Get a single topic #

DELETE /t/{id}.json Remove a topic #

PUT /t/-/{id}.json Update a topic #

POST /t/{id}/invite.json Invite to topic #

POST /t/{id}/invite-group.json Invite group to topic #

PUT /t/{id}/bookmark.json Bookmark topic #

PUT /t/{id}/status.json Update the status of a topic #

GET /latest.json Get the latest topics #

GET /top.json Get the top topics filtered by period #

POST /t/{id}/notifications.json Set notification level #

PUT /t/{id}/change-timestamp.json Update topic timestamp #

POST /t/{id}/timer.json Create topic timer #

GET /t/external_id/{external_id}.json Get topic by external_id #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Discourse API Documentation Topics API
  x-logo:
    url: https://docs.discourse.org/logo.svg
  version: latest
  description: This page contains the documentation on how to use Discourse through API calls.
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://docs.discourse.org/LICENSE.txt
servers:
- url: https://{defaultHost}
  variables:
    defaultHost:
      default: discourse.example.com
tags:


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