Custom Featured Topics Component

Hi Jillian,

did you have any specific issues with the calls you tried (errors etc...) or was it more a case of not finding the correct call?

In general - you can feature topics/threads within nodes. So for instance you can have a list of featured threads for :

• A blog : http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Blog.threads#Blog.threads.featured
• A board : http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Board.threads#Board.threads.featured
• A category : http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Category.threads.featured#Category.threads.featured
• Or even the community : http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Community.threads.featured#Community.threads.featured

Normally you can also retrieve the count of featured topics (by adding /count at the end of the call) and use the paging parameters to control how many of them you want returned and so on.

For example for the community you could use:

http://mycommunity.brand.com/restapi/vc/threads/featured/count

 To get a count of the featured threads for mycommunity or 

http://mycommunity.brand.com/restapi/vc/threads/featured?page_size=3

 To get the first three featured threads

Hope that will help in getting started!

If you want all of the featured threads from across the community, then the REST API call is:

http://community.example.com/[community name]/restapi/vc/threads/featured

If you only want featured forum threads, it would be:
http://community.example.com/[community name]/restapi/vc/threads/style/forum/featured

More details here:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Community.threads.featured#Community.threads.featured

Does that help?