---
title: "Service: /members/{member}/groups/{group}/discussions [GET]"
source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/api/services/list-member-group-discussions-GET.html
description: "GET endpoint that retrieves a paginated list of discussions for a specific member's group. Supports filtering by archived status, comment inclusion, and group details with configurable page size and discussion size limits."
last_updated: 2026-09-02T11:36:02+10:00
document_type: api_endpoint
operation_id: comment-GET
resource_id: comment
path_template: /members/{member}/groups/{group}/discussions
http_method: GET
api_category: comment
implementation_version: 6.2004
api_since: 5.9800
deprecated_since: null
obsolete_since: null
api_support: supported
cache_control: null
generated_at: 2026-09-02
tokens: ~482
---

# /members/\{member\}/groups/\{group\}/discussions \[GET\]

## Description

Load a list of discussions from the current group.

## Parameters

| Name | Description | Required | Type | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| archived | Whether to include discussions/attachedtos where all comments are archived (`true` if `comments=archive`). *Requires PageSeeder 5.9907 or higher.* | no | boolean | `false` |
| comments | The comments to include, can be `none`,`first`,`last`,`all`,`archive` | no | string | `all` |
| discussionsize | The maximum number of comments to return per discussion | no | integer | `100` |
| page | The page to load | no | integer | `1` |
| pagesize | The number of results per page | no | integer | `10` |
| returngroups | The groups to return in the output, can be `none`,`user`,`all`(administrator only includes all comments) | no | string | `none` |

## Permission

This service is restricted to guest and higher.

## Response

This service returns a `<discussions>` element, listing each discussion in a [\<discussion\>](../elements/element_discussion.md) element.

```xml

<discussions>
  <discussion id="123"
              title="My thread"
              replycount="3"
              lastcommentid="234"
              lastcommentdate="2012-08-20T14:27:48+10:00">
    <uri id="789">...</uri>
    <locator fragment="2"/>
    <comment id="234"
             contentrole="File Attachment"
             created="2012-03-08T12:34:00+10:00">
      <title>My thread</title>
      <content type="text/plain">Some text</content>
      <attachment>
        <uri id="189">...</uri>
      </attachment>
      <attachment fragment="5">
        <uri id="289">...</uri>
      </attachment>
     [<group id="12" name="acme-specs" />
      ...]
    </comment>
  </discussion>
  <discussion id="100">
  ...
  </discussion>
</discussions>
```

## Error Handling

No specific errors expected for this service.