REST API: Retrieve user latest messages only for selected category or board

Hi there,

There is a knowledge base article here: that should help achieve exactly this.

Hopefully this helps!

Thanks!

Hello Booth,

Unfortunately your example doesn't exactly match my problem.

As understand you suggest the following:

1. Find all user's tags in the specified location(category or board)
2. Find all messages that are related for each of these tags
3. Get details for all find messages separately.

I guess that this solutions will not work for the following reasons:

• When user make his post, it is not necessary that he assign some tags to it.
• How we can find the total number of messages? If we will get all messages for each tags, I guess there are many messages will be duplicated. For example: if message has tags "Tag1" and "Tag2", then this message will be included in both search results(search results for "Tag1" and  search results for "Tag2")

Hello AdamN, 

thank you for your answer!

As I can see it is exactly solve my problem.

But I have one addtional question to you:

Where I can find the full documentation according to parameters of message search via REST API?

Hi !

i know it is an old topic, but i'd like to do the same thing: retreive messages from an author on a particular blog.

The problem with ?location=blog-board%3Atest-blog&author_id=5  is that my rest response is empty.
I need to add the q parameter to make the results appear...

Moreover, ,n the standard search page result, whereas leaving the search box empty in the Lithosphere return all posts by default, in our community we get the error "Empty search query. Please enter one or more keywords and try again."

Thus this rest call which works perfectly here:

http://community.lithium.com/restapi/vc/search/messages?location=Board%3Astudio&author_id=12780

would failed on our side.

Is there a param in the admin to specify that the search query can be empty?

If not , is there a wildcard i can set in the url for the q param?

Regards

JC

Hi JC,

instead of "location=xyz", can you try "&board_id=abc" or "boards_id=abc,xyz,mnl" ? it will work for you.

for example, http://community.lithium.com/restapi/vc/search/messages?board_id=studio&author_id=6198&restapi.response_style=view, list all your posts in this board (developers discussion)

Hi ,

thanx for the reply, but i've got no problem with the location (but you're syntax is better than the other ;) )....

My problem is that i've got no result if i don't specify the q parameter :

search/messages?q=test&board_id=blog-dev&author_id=5&restapi.response_style=view

will return results

search/messages?board_id=blog-dev&author_id=5&restapi.response_style=view

return an empty response :

<response status="success">
<messages/>
</response>

 regards

JC

Hi jc758,

If you want to get only the root topic messages (and you do not want the comments ) , you can add this value for q

search/messages?q=is_root:true&board_id=blog-dev&author_id=5&restapi.response_style=view

This would include only the root message , and would also serve as a value to the "q" parameter , while including all posts.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,

Sam

Hi Sam!

thanks, that's what i was looking for!

blogs/id/blog-dev/search/messages?q=is_root:true&author_id=5&restapi.format_detail=full_list_element&restapi.response_style=view

do the trick now ;)

regards

JC

Hi JC,

Search without "q=" is as known as blank search. The community disabled that feature by default. Lithium Support can help you enable this feature from backend. After that you will see results from   /search/messages  (without any parameters)

please keep in mind that it will also affect the community search, i.e. when someone hits the "search" button without any input, he will be able to see some result in search page.