# API / Functionality required to push Data from Discourse to external resource

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-functionality-required-to-push-data-from-discourse-to-external-resource/290267
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 2, 2024, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-functionality-required-to-push-data-from-discourse-to-external-resource/290267 "2024-01-02T13:04:45Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 10:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-functionality-required-to-push-data-from-discourse-to-external-resource/290267/4 "2024-01-03T10:06:22Z")

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This might help you with part of the solution:

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. 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: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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