Recent category threads

Hello ghayman,

You are correct. That rest call does not exist in our API. For categories, you can only request threads by "featured" and "style".

Your question presents an interesting problem, since recent threads are stored at board level this would not scale well as the size of the community grows. The tree structure of a community has the potential to grow exponentially. Hence we do not currently have this rest call supported.

However, this can be done programatically using "categories/id/<id>/boards/nested" to get a list of the boards under the category. With this list of boards, recent threads could be requested from each board. After sorting the recent threads, you could take the top x threads as recent for the category.

Note that the community does support "threads/featured/nested" for all of the featured articles under the category.

Let me know if you have any other questions or if this is a feature request and I will answer it as soon as I can or direct the question to the proper employees in Lithium.

Sorry I could not be of more help, but thanks for your question,

David