Hi, I would like to create some weekly statistic reports using the REST API. I will be doing this for forum linkingyourthinking com but I would like to start early before I have gotten the keys from the administrator which might take a while, since they are in the middle of a 6 week workshop. So …

You can set up a local development instance of discourse for such work. It is fairly simple to do so. See How do I set up a local Discourse Development Environment?

Thanks for the tip! Will there by any demo data in such an instance: users, groups and posts?

There will be some default seeded data but you’re always free to create some data as per your own need.

[صورة] orli: So I was hoping to begin right now with try.discourse.org , Is that possible? I have tried curl -X GET https://try.discourse.org/site.json and it works nicely. If you are doing reports on public data on try.discourse.org you won’t need the API keys, as the GET requests will work…

Thank you! I don’t have the terminology clear for me right now. I want to list all groups for each group, list group member statistics: seen, posts, read time, … do this on a weekly basis and mail to the group leaders/guides. That data is probably not public?

It is! Discourse aims to be an open and crawleable platform by default. In fact you can even do the same on Meta. [صورة] orli: list all groups curl https://meta.discourse.org/g.json [صورة] orli: for each group, list group member statistics: seen, posts, read time, … curl https://meta…

Hi can anyone tell me the difference and usage of Api-key and Api-Username.

The api username will tell Discourse which capabilities are enabled. An admin or a regular user don’t have the same capabilities, and using one or another will restrict what you can achieve using the api. the api key is the password to be used with the api username.

So in my scenario I only want to use the discourse api and my confusion is that every user who is using my app can create post, like, comment other features so now do i want to create api-username and api-key for each user to use respective api’s?

have you read the api documentation? especially this [صورة] User API keys specification Integrations Discourse contains a system for generating API keys per user if a very specific protocol is followed. This feature facilitates “application” access to Discour…

"Api-Key" و "Api-Username" لموقع try.discourse.org؟

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) 10 سبتمبر 2021، 11:33ص 2

يمكنك إعداد نسخة تطوير محلية من Discourse لمثل هذا العمل. إن القيام بذلك أمر بسيط نسبيًا.

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الموضوع		الردود	مرات العرض
Allow API use by regular users, not just admins Development rest-api	7	1325	29 أبريل 2023
User API keys specification Integrations rest-api , reference	70	35343	22 سبتمبر 2025
Create apikey for user programmatically as admin Development rest-api	8	1950	26 فبراير 2024
Access via Discourse API, key and/or user rejected Development rest-api	2	863	1 ديسمبر 2023
New to API, 403 Errors Development rest-api	15	3500	1 فبراير 2023

"Api-Key" و "Api-Username" لموقع try.discourse.org؟

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