Let me preface by saying I am new to Discourse. I have constructed a query in Data Explorer that I would like to be used to populate a particular page on our website (It would basically show the topics under a particular category). From what I can see, I would require an All Users API key to fetch t…

[image] gbain: I would require an All Users API key to fetch the data, but how can I avoid exposing this API key? Is the solution to simply fetch the data server-side and then return it Yes, making the request from your server is the correct approach.

[image] gbain: It would basically show the topics under a particular category You don’t need the data explorer for that, you can request the json for the category topic list and consume it using Javascript.

Thanks for replying :slightly_smiling_face:. The reason I was leaning towards Data Explorer was because I wanted to show some text from the first post of the topic, however I realize now this may be possible by using the topic excerpt. I tried running the Category “List Topics” query specified in th…

There is a hidden site setting for that: SiteSetting.always_include_topic_excerpts = true

I am on a hosted plan though. Is it still possible to access these hidden settings?

Best way to show Data Explorer data on an external website?

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simon July 22, 2021, 4:02pm 2

Yes, making the request from your server is the correct approach.

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