content_type=forumForum
Threaded discussion — mailing lists, message boards and community threads, where the value is in the exchange rather than in any single post.
Where undocumented behaviour gets discussed. Lower average quality than documentation, and frequently the only place a particular edge case is described at all.
The characteristic value of forum content is failure modes — the error nobody documented, the configuration that breaks in production. The characteristic risk is that a thread captures one moment in a project, so pair it with a publication-date bound when the software has moved on.
What this covers
- mailing list archives
- discussion boards
- issue threads
Example
curl -H "x-api-key: $UNLOB_API_KEY" \
"https://api.unlob.com/search?q=your+query&content_type[]=forum&limit=10"Common questions
What is the forum content type?
Threaded discussion — mailing lists, message boards and community threads, where the value is in the exchange rather than in any single post.
How do I search only forum?
Set content_type[]=forum on any search request. Content type is assigned at index time from page structure and markup rather than guessed from the URL, so the filter is reliable.
When is the forum filter worth using?
The characteristic value of forum content is failure modes — the error nobody documented, the configuration that breaks in production. The characteristic risk is that a thread captures one moment in a project, so pair it with a publication-date bound when the software has moved on.
Filter by what a page is
Content type is assigned at index time from structure, not guessed from the URL — so the filter does what it says.