API feature request for additonal info about external accounts

[nekodroid]

Hey !

I’ve looked into Discourse’s API, and was wondering if additional info about external accounts (from other social networks) could be get through it.

In my case, it’d be for Discord : I’d like to sync people that create their account on the forum with a role on my server. On a command the user would type, the Discord bot would check if a Discourse account does have the user’s Discord account linked to it using its ID. (Might have been a bit hard to understand sorry '^^)

How’s that sound ?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Everything is in the API. Search “reverse engineered api”. I guess you want the discord id in a user custom field?

Reverse engineer the Discourse API

Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select XHR filter: [image] Perform the op…

[nekodroid]

Yep that’s it, exactly !

[Stephen]

Did you try searching beforehand?

Discord Bot Construction Kit

Purpose of this plugin This plugin does several things: Allows you to power a Discord bot using your Discourse server to do stuff to link the two systems. Fork this repo and expand it with simple Ruby to create all kinds of bot functionality. Existing functionality to serve as examples and useful utility: Provides some two-way auto posting of content that meet some criteria. Command to copy messages ad hoc to Discourse Command to sync group membership to role membership of your Discor…

[nekodroid]

I did try, but never found this.

Thanks a lot !!

I’ll give it a try and keep you all up-to-date here. —

EDIT : I had tried this already. It spams the Discord API and almost got my original bot banned last time — Can’t use this. I’d rather make use of the Discourse API myself, and get IDs easily. Plus, it’s not working the way I want it to work.

[nekodroid]

What I’d basically like to have is a !check command. When the user runs it, it checks the Discord user’s ID and on the site if an account with the same ID exists. If it does, it gives a role. If not, it doesn’t.