---
title: "List every Slickdeals legacy sub-forum"
method: GET
path: "/slickdeals/forums"
tags: ["Slickdeals"]
---

# List every Slickdeals legacy sub-forum

`GET /slickdeals/forums`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/slickdeals/forums`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Returns Slickdeals' own full legacy sub-forum list (e.g. Hot Deals, Coupons, Freebies) -- the discovery endpoint for GET /slickdeals/search's forum_id parameter. A separate, coarser-grained taxonomy from GET /slickdeals/categories' 421-entry tag list: this is the classification GET /slickdeals/deal, /slickdeals/search/advanced, and /slickdeals/frontpage already surface as forum_id, with this endpoint as the way to resolve an id to a name or filter search results by it. The list is refreshed from Slickdeals' own site periodically; an optional q parameter narrows it to a substring match on name.

## Query parameters

- `q` string

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- SlickdealsForumsResponseDoc
  - `code` integer: Code is the HTTP status code or a custom code used to indicate the result of the request @example 200
  - `data` SlickdealsForumsResponse
    - `count` integer
    - `fetched_at` string
    - `forums` SlickdealsForumRef[]
      - `id` integer
      - `name` string
      - `url` string
    - `source_url` string
  - `msg` unknown

## Other responses

- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `503`: Service Unavailable

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