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samudhraa
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11 years ago

Count of Popular topics at Category level

Hi All , How can I get a count of popular topics at category level or Is it possible to get the number of messages in kudoed message leaderboard. I am trying to a custom component for popular topi...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    11 years ago

    Hi Sam,

     

    Are you trying to get a count of messages that have kudos in a category, or are you trying to get a sum of all the kudos given in a category?

     

    If the former, you could probably do a search for messages in the category that have kudos, using the "has_kudos" filter. For example:

    /restapi/vc/search/messages/count?location=category%3ADeveloper&has_kudos=true&collapse_discussion=false

     This would give you count of all of the messages in the "Developer" category that have kudos. To get the actual messages, you could just remove the "/count" path parameter.

     

    If you're wanting a sum of all the kudos instead, you could probably do so using the metrics call for a category:

    http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Category.metrics#Category.metrics

    You would just need to determine the name of the metric (you can find this in the admin) and the desired time range.

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samudhraa
Expert

Hi AdamN ,

 

Thanks for your response. It gave me some direction to solve my issue.

 I am trying to get the former - the count of messages that have kudos in a cateogory. I tried the REST call you mentioned , but I got 0 values of count , and no messages.

I tried to modify the REST call , by querying within the category , simply for messages , without the has_kudos parameter (/categories/id/categoryId/search/messages) . I even tried a global search.

But I am still getting empty response , when I know for a fact there are 4 messages with kudoes. 

May be I am missing something ?

 

Thanks,

Sam

 

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samudhraa
Expert
11 years ago

Looks like I caught  myself. When I searched for a text ,using the q parameter , it returned an appropriate response. 

ie., when I used something like this

/categories/id/catId/search/messages?q=appit&has_kudos=true

 

I got a list of messages.

Now I would just have to figure out what to use as search parameter that would include all messages.

Thanks again AdamN.

 

Regards,

Sam