Getting a list of recent messages via API
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...
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You may have accidentally duped the threads that both work in your post. When I click on the links, I have success on both. Was one of them supposed to not work?
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 -
http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Growing-Successful-Communities/Active-Cast-and-IE/m-p/1484#M381
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.
Yeah, that is a bit odd. I am an anonymous user and I can see this API response just fine:
http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/boards/id/hello
So the good news is that we at least have a "dial tone".
Now, when I try to get the latest messages from that board in particular, I am successful:
http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/boards/id/hello/messages/latest
And when I go into the Community level and want to find out what the names of the categories are, I am successful:
http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/categories
But you're right, when I try to get recent posts from the Category or Community level, I'm having trouble...
I'll keep looking into this. BTW, when is your upgrade to v9?
Ok, I think you need to upgrade to v9 in order to get that API call.
The closest I can get you is recent threads for your entire community, not recent posts:
http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/restapi/vc/threads/recent
I hope this will help until you can get on v9.
