This stopped working two days ago for a hosted customer: HTTP_STATUS=$(curl -s -o /tmp/discourse_response.json -w "%{http_code}" \ -X POST "https://HOSTNAME/admin/plugins/discourse-data-explorer/queries/3/run" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \ -H "Api-Key: $DISCOURSE_API_KE…

[image] pfaffman: I’m still getting a 400 error. 400 or 406 ? Try adding a Accept: application/json header.

Wait. I found it: {"errors":["You supplied invalid parameters to the request: limit"],"error_type":"invalid_parameters"} So the issue is -F "limit=ALL" So now my question is why that stopped working?

Thanks very much. But I was unable to use limit=ALL even as an admin with a global key. The client needs to download all of the data (I’m currently unclear what the limit is or how large the set is likely to be.

[image] pfaffman: But I was unable to use limit=ALL even as an admin with a global key. That is exactly what the PR aimed to do! [image] pfaffman: The client needs to download all of the data Options are backups, or doing pagination with select * from table where id > (:page * 5000) …

[image] Falco: That is exactly what the PR aimed to do! It’s working! Is the max for a normal query that I’m doing 5000? If so, I’m definitely safe.

[image] pfaffman: It’s working! :laughing: [image] pfaffman: Is the max for a normal query that I’m doing 5000? If so, I’m definitely safe. Looks like it is 10k plugins/discourse-data-explorer/plugin.rb main register_svg_icon "pencil" r…

Thanks very much. Looks ilke I didn’ t need that no-limit anyway. :slight_smile: I’ve been very pleased that I figured out how to use Github actions to daily pull this query to upload it to a vendor’s FTP site. It’s broken twice in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully this is the last time for a lon…

Has something changed in the data explorer? Can't get query via API

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Falco (Falco) March 11, 2026, 5:26pm 4

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38320

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Has something changed in the data explorer? Can't get query via API

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