SharePoint REST API to get Discussion List Questions and Replies separately

To get the list of questions from a SP 2013+ Distribution list using OOTB REST API:

_api/lists/getByTitle(‘listname‘)/items?$filter=ContentType eq ‘Discussion’

or

/_api/lists/getByTitle(‘listname‘)/items?$filter=FSObjType eq 1

To get the list of replies from a SP 2013+ Distribution list, using OOTB REST API:

_api/lists/getByTitle(‘listname‘)/items?$filter=ContentType eq ‘Message’

or

/_api/lists/getByTitle(‘listname‘)/items?$filter=FSObjType eq 0

To get the list of Discussions with the replies count from a SP 2013+ Distribution list, using OOTB REST API:

/_api/lists/getByTitle(‘listname‘)/items?$select=ID,Title,Body,Folder/ItemCount &$expand=Folder/ItemCount &$filter=ContentType eq ‘Discussion’

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