How to show only 5 posts?

bhupen 

You can mix API v1 and API v2 calls.

If you want to optimize the code, have a look at the User resource in the API v2 documentation and check if you can get the favourite.

Here is the code that should work. You need to provide a valide user.id for your rest call.

It will loop the user favourite and build a list for the WHERE CLAUSE used to get the last 5 messages.

<h3>Latest Posts from Favorites Users</h3> <br />
<#assign whereclause = ""/>
<#list restadmin("/users/id/${user.id}/addressbook/contacts/friends").users.user as user>
<#if user??>
<#assign whereclause = whereclause + "'" + user.id + "'" />
<#if user_has_next><#assign whereclause = whereclause + "," /></#if>
</#if>
</#list>

<#if wherclause??>
<#assign messages = rest("2.0","/search?q=" + "SELECT subject, view_href, post_time_friendly, board.id, author.id FROM messages WHERE author.id IN (${whereclause}) ORDER BY post_time DESC LIMIT 5"?url) />

<#list messages.data.items as recent >
<#if recent??>
<a href="${recent.view_href}">${recent.subject}</a><br/>
</#if>
</#list>
</#if>