Request for Forum Post Access or API Expansion

I’ve been working on a Torn tool that integrates strategic advice, API data, and player goals into an interactive planner. It pulls in Torn’s official API and overlays it with forum-based guides (Crimes 2.0 strategies, gym plans, war tactics, etc.).

I’ve tried using cookies, headers, and even rendering engines to pull readable data from forum threads — but Torn’s security model reliably blocks every method, even with valid user sessions and respectful headers.

At this point, my only viable option is to request either:

1. A supported method to retrieve forum thread content (e.g. internal read-only API endpoint, or authenticated scraping guidelines)
2. Or clear feedback on whether forum scraping (under respectful, non-commercial use) is strictly disallowed

I’m not asking for open access — just a definitive answer on how (or if) guide content can be safely parsed into tooling like the one I’m building. Any info on future V2 API plans that include forum access would also be hugely appreciated.

Thanks for your time — really hoping to align with the platform and avoid workarounds if possible.

Introduce yourself to api v2 https://www.torn.com/swagger/index.html

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All forum data is available in the V2 API here: https://www.torn.com/swagger.php#/Forum

Also please don't use GPT to write forum posts this reads horribly.

You had more links, that takes more time. Gold star for you ⭐ 

Now just gimme a way to pull my forum posts from factions I'm not in anymore 👉👈 Even an offer for an e can didn't get me my posts 😭

Scraping public pages is a bad idea regardless. I’ve gotten IP blocked a few times previously by opening too many forum posts too quickly while signed out.

I  know scraping is a bad idea !! 

But i ran into issues - I wanted togetthe posts so i could make a balanced, senisble bit of kit that took preety much most stuff into account.

Kept running into a brick wall always being pointed to v2 and Swagger - but i still didnt have the right level key - hence my question and brutal honesty as to how i what i was thinking about to get round it.

I posyted because Im dont want to be respctful of the rules and i find the posts arent very clear - theres a lot of non definitive posts and the docs (which ive read) still dont allow me to grab the actual posts - due to the key.

In anutshell - is it possible ?

Appreciate the replies - although it does prove my point the threads go off topic pretty fast and the rabbit hole approaches lol

You can close this thread

A public key is enough to get forum posts - most likely you are using an incorrect API call. I've done a lot of forum projects using the API so i know 100% it works just fine with a public key.

https://api.torn.com/v2/forum/categories?key=

Works fine

Guys - first off your replies are pretty much bang on - its appreciated,

I get the info - ive been round that before and fetched my posts and data etc but not others en masse.

A bit like trying to get logs - they are top level requests and obviously I havent got one of them.

Im banging my head against a wall here because the only data i can get is for me but not for others (in the forums) I see theres plans to sort this - so is it a case of chill and wait as ive read in nthe forums ?

As for my ;logs that is simpy a key level issue that im not entitled to - so  i need to go back to dumping logs and cleaning the data (which is easy till you put the trade data in there that has its own structure - (5 lines or so instead of 1.)

Seriously gents - great work and again, cheers for the replies !

Either you are not explaining properly what you are trying to get, or you are doing something wrong - anyone's posts, as long as they are in public forums, can be grabbed via a public api key.

For example, here is a wordcloud from YOUR forum posts i generated right now, using my api key.

Which endpoint are you using? Give us an example, without the api key. Also, maybe you are trying to access posts in a faction or company forum?

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