Webhook for Digest Email Solution
The discussion revolves around creating a webhook or similar feature for digest emails in Discourse. hosna wants to send digest email data to an endpoint, allowing for notifications and in-app display. The proposed solution needs to handle personalized digest emails and user identification.
michaeld clarifies the requirements, and hosna explains that user IDs are stored in Discourse, which can be transferred alongside digest data to the endpoint. hosna also prefers minimal changes to the existing digest method.
Mark_Schmucker shares a custom plugin, but hosna finds it too customized. michaeld offers to develop a solution, estimating a cost of USD 600.
The solution, discourse-webhook-digest, is now available, supporting JSON and HTML payloads, shared secret authentication, and configurable sending intervals.
Hello,
Since my users are mostly using my mobile application, I want to send digest emails directly to my application and also send notifications, whenever they are available.
So I need something like webhook to send digest email data to an endpoint.
How would this work, given the fact that digest emails are personalized? How would you be identifying the users?
Do you want to send “real” digest emails as well?
I store the user id of my users inside my application as a user field in discourse. then I assume this data would be transferred alongside digest data to the endpoint I want. This way I can do the rest and show digest inside my application and/or send notifications when ever they arrive.
If its possible to have different frequencies for real digest email and this webhook with minimal effort, I think its preferable.
You’re welcome to look at GitHub - markschmucker/discourse-506investor-digest-plugin · GitHub. It sends all posts- not just a few like the standard digest emails. It also sends the most-liked post (we put that post at the top of our custom digest).
The endpoint is hard-coded so you’d have to change that.
This will override the standard digests.
Thank you very much for sharing your plugin. However your plugin seems to be too much customized. I prefer to use discourse own digest method with minimal change. just need to send the data to an endpoint instead of email, to do what i want with it.
ok, your requirements are pretty clear. I will be able to do this. Estimated cost will be around USD 600.
PM me for details !
OP didn’t mind sharing the code 
so you can find it here: GitHub - communiteq/discourse-webhook-digest · GitHub
There is support for JSON and HTML payloads, shared secret authentication, configurable sending interval and suppression periods.
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