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Discourse API Documentation
This page contains the documentation on how to use Discourse through API calls. > Note: For any endpoints not listed you can follow the reverse engineer the Discourse API guide to figure out how to use an API endpoint. ### Request Content-Type The Content-Type for POST and PUT requests can be set to `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`, `multipart/form-data`, or `application/json`. ### Endpoint Names and Response Content-Type Most API endpoints provide the same content as their HTML counterparts. For example the URL `/categories` serves a list of categories, the `/categories.json` API provides the same information in JSON format. Instead of sending API requests to `/categories.json` you may also send them to `/categories` and add an `Accept: application/json` header to the request to get the JSON response. Sending requests with the `Accept` header is necessary if you want to use URLs for related endpoints returned by the API, such as pagination URLs. These URLs are returned without the `.json` prefix so you need to add the header in order to get the correct response format. ### Authentication Some endpoints do not require any authentication, pretty much anything else will require yo
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- First observed: Sep 20, 2026
- Last directory-field change: Sep 20, 2026
- Current source observation: Sep 20, 2026
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Sep 20, 2026 · Added from an approved API directory.
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