Hello!
I want to get the monthly active users (https://club.magiaycardistry.com/about ) with n8n to store them and keep track of the growth of my forum.
I’ve done it through web scraping in n8n, and it works fine, but I was wondering if is it possible to make it in any other way, like accessing the database with n8n and doing queries?
It would be really helpful, not just for this, but for many other integrations.
Thanks!
The supported integrations are, I believe, documented here:
Discourse offers a Data Explorer API that gives you ultimate flexibility, but may not yet be supported by n8n at present:
Virtually any action that can be performed through the Discourse user interface can also be triggered with the Discourse API. For a general overview of how to find the correct API request for an action, see Reverse engineer the Discourse API .
To run a Data Explorer query from the API, you need to make a POST request to /admin/plugins/explorer/queries/<query-id>/run. You can find the a Data Explorer query’s ID by visiting the query on your site and getting the value of the id parameter that yo…
Perhaps there’s a way you can build the integration with that yourself using n8n developer tools?
You might get help with that at: https://community.n8n.io/
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Thanks! I’ll check the documentation provided.