Getting a list of recent messages via API

Question

I am having some difficulty in getting a list of recent messages via the API.

I located a post in these forums that showed me the following URL:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/restapi/vc/posts/recent

That URL works on the lithosphere forums, but not here:

http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/threads/recent

I am not sure why it isn't working on my community site.

1) Does anyone know why this works on this site but not on mine?

2) Does anyone know other ways to get the list of recent messages?

Strangely enough, the URL to get the list of recent threads does work on my community: http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/threads/recent

Thanks!

jaker · Answer

Yeah, I see.&nbsp; In a perfect world the user would have a button that gets all the posts that have occurred since they lost logged in...oh wait, that is coming in our latest v9 release. Heheh.
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Seriously though, for the here and now, I've been thinking about your challenge.
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When you run that call, it looks like it returns all the threads that have been updated in the last week, one thing I might suggest is running it with a little query string parameter tacked on:
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http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/threads/recent?page=1&amp;page_size=10
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With those parameters tacked on it looks like it returns the threads just in the last day or two (of course you can fiddle with the numbers in those parameters in order to expand or reduce the results).
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Would something like that work for you?&nbsp;
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There are other parameters that you can use (contained within the REST API docs that you can get from your CSM).&nbsp; Maybe these ones are the ones that you should be using instead of the ones that I tacked on:
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topic_sort_order - Specifies the order in which threads are listed in a message list. Possible values:

last_post_date - Threads are sorted by the dates the threads were started in descending order, with the newest topics                              appearing first
topic_start_date - Threads are sorted by the date of the newest message in each thread in descending order, with the  threads with newest messages appearing first.

jaker · Answer

Oh, and if you do have a community where this is not working (but it is working on the other one), then you might also want to check permissions regarding use of the API on the one that is not working -
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http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Growing-Successful-Communities/Active-Cast-and-IE/m-p/1484#M381
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jaker · Answer

Ok, I think you need to upgrade to v9 in order to get that API call.
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The closest I can get you is recent threads for your entire community, not recent posts:
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http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/threads/recent
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I hope this will help until you can get on v9.

jaker · Answer

You may have accidentally duped the threads that both work in your post.&nbsp; When I click on the links, I have success on both.&nbsp; Was one of them supposed to not work?

ryanfarley · Answer

Yeah, sorry. I did post the wrong link. I posted the link that works in *this* community, which is:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/restapi/vc/posts/recent <-this works here, but not on mine

If I use that same URL on my community it does not work (although the URL for recent threads does work). It does not appear to be a permissions issue from the response. The response gives a 501 error stating "Unknown path element at node 'community'."

This one does not work for me:

http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/posts/recent

I am stuck :( Thanks for any help.

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