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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# List channels

> Returns all channels in the community, ordered by position



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://api.zapnito.com/api/docs/v1/swagger.json get /api/v1/channels
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: API V1
  version: v1
  description: Zapnito API Documentation
servers:
  - url: https://{host}
    description: Your community domain
    variables:
      host:
        default: your-community.com
        description: Your community domain, for example your-community.com
security: []
tags:
  - name: Health Check
    description: Check that the API is reachable and that your API key is valid
  - name: Identity
    description: Find out which community your API key belongs to
  - name: Users
    description: >-
      Look up the people in your community, update their profile and choose
      which notifications they receive
  - name: Organisations
    description: >-
      Create and update the organisations in your community and manage who
      belongs to them
  - name: Groups
    description: Create groups and manage which users belong to them
  - name: Invitations
    description: Invite people to join your community
  - name: Posts
    description: Create, read and update posts on behalf of your community members
  - name: Contents
    description: >-
      Read the published content of your community and publish, schedule or
      unpublish it
  - name: Channels
    description: List the channels in your community and the content published in each
  - name: Rooms
    description: Create and read the rooms where your community members meet
  - name: Tags
    description: Create tags and apply them to content
  - name: Badges
    description: Create badges and award them to content or to users
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: Read the custom profile fields your community asks its members to fill in
  - name: Third-Party Resources
    description: >-
      Link to resources hosted outside your community so they appear alongside
      your content
  - name: Rest Hooks
    description: >-
      Subscribe a URL to events in your community, so you are told when they
      happen
paths:
  /api/v1/channels:
    get:
      tags:
        - Channels
      summary: List channels
      description: Returns all channels in the community, ordered by position
      operationId: listChannels
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The channels of the community, ordered by position
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  channels:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Channel'
                required:
                  - channels
        '401':
          description: >-
            The API key is missing or invalid. The response body is the text
            `HTTP Token: Access denied.`
      security:
        - tokenAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    Channel:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          example: 1
        name:
          type: string
          example: Latest research
        description:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          example: New research from our experts
        position:
          type: integer
          example: 1
          description: Where the channel appears in the list. Lower numbers come first
        type:
          type: string
          example: Channel
        pin_to_menu:
          type: boolean
          example: false
          description: Whether the channel is pinned to the navigation menu
        access_type:
          type: string
          example: open
        archived:
          type: boolean
          example: false
          description: Whether the channel has been archived
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          example: '2024-01-01T00:00:00Z'
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - position
        - type
        - pin_to_menu
        - access_type
        - archived
        - created_at
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header
      description: >-
        API authentication using your community API secret. The value below is
        sent as the Authorization header verbatim, so paste the whole header
        value including the prefix: Token token=<api-key>
      x-default: Token token=<api-key>

````

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