Hi Team, The enterprise that I work in has a hosted Discourse package for both Internal & External customers. As an Admin on the Forum, I have some specific reporting functions to execute to generate Bi-weekly, Monthly and Annual user activity reports. The fixed reporting periods (All_Time, Year, Quarter, Month, Week and Day) are useable however they are all linked to the Current_Date. Consequently I need to run specific Date_Range 01 January 20XX to 31 December 20XX reports and do so using the direct Search API and the Curl command. Single_User reporting of Categories or a custom time range is simple however the fun begins when I attempt to use the group_messages: groupname option or multiple options in the Curl command. The current base command that I use for all of my searches is: curl -i -sS -X GET -G “https://discuss.domainname.com/search.json” --data-urlencode ‘q=subject @username #questions after:2021-12-31’ | tail -n 1 | jq .topics | sed “s|: "|:"|g” | grep slug | cut -d “"” -f4 Then the results get Bashed and Awked etc into a .CSV for easy importing into GoogleSheets. In the Search documents, allegedly you can use multiple options within each Options category, so I could have in:title in:likes in:seen etc however I am unable to get more than one in:option to produce a valid search. The docs mention the use of group_messages: groupname however if I used that option in the above Curl query I get zero results, and I have tried with many of the Groups on our forum. Ideally I would like to run Curl searches to achieve the following reports: small_team_name | Topics_Created | Replies_Posted | Date_Range large_team_name | Topics_Created | Replies_Posted | Date_Range Can someone give me some guidance please on what I may be doing wrong, or suggest a better method? Regards, DDBM001.

You might be interested in this reply: [image] Advanced search filters: posts by group Support I think you can use group:GROUPNAME to search all the posts posted by a certain group? The group_messages:GROUPNAME one is for searching group inboxes.

Query RE Group_Messages & In Options in Curl API Search

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