'Watch' -ed numbers in api?

hellowmellow

Being an admin, am I able to see what is the 'Watching' and/or 'Tracking' number of a particular category or tag? I looked around the doc and seems like we can't do this yet? Is there a workaround.

Thank you.

hellowmellow

This is the typical response for /categories/. I don't think I am overlooking it lol

{

    "status": 

{

    "code": "ok",
    "message": "OK"

},
"response": 
{

    "cid": 0,
    "name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "descriptionParsed": "string",
    "icon": "fa-comments-o",
    "bgColor": "string",
    "color": "string",
    "slug": "string",
    "parentCid": 0,
    "topic_count": 0,
    "post_count": 0,
    "disabled": 0,
    "order": 0,
    "link": "string",
    "numRecentReplies": 0,
    "class": "string",
    "imageClass": "auto",
    "isSection": 0,
    "minTags": 0,
    "maxTags": 0,
    "postQueue": 0,
    "totalPostCount": 0,
    "totalTopicCount": 0,
    "subCategoriesPerPage": 0,
    "backgroundImage": "string",
    "tagWhitelist": 

        [
            "string"
        ],
        "unread-class": "string"
    }

}

<baris>

I assume you want to see how many people are watching and/or tracking a category. This is not available in the API right now. You can use a plugin like https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15282/nodebb-plugin-db-explorer. It will let you count items in sorted sets. See below example, it shows how many people are tracking category 2 on this forum.

The min/max values can be from 1 to 4.

Categories.watchStates = {
	ignoring: 1,
	notwatching: 2,
	tracking: 3,
	watching: 4,
};

hellowmellow

That's great. I will tinker around this thing. Thanks man

Edit: Are there any plans to include this with api in future?

<baris>

Maybe we can add it to the admin page for category analytics at /admin/manage/categories/<cid>/analytics

hellowmellow

I see. Well, other than analytics, adding in api could be a good thing as it allows members to see how many people are watching a category or tag to tell how popular they are. Just another metrics to determine popularity rather than post views or upvotes.