Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier

[Krischan]

You could check with a get action event, if the user already has an account:

And if it’s the case, you run a path where you add this user to a group using a put action:

[Sebastien78 (Sebastien)]

@Sebastien78

Awesome Krischan ! Thanks for your quick reply ! I’m trying it right now.

The Get part seems to work.

But I have an issue on the Put action :

1 / Can you tell me which Content-type do I have to put in header ?
(I guess I still add my API Username and API Key)

2/ On the URL of the Put Action, do I have to use the group ID (in number, like 110 in your example), or can I use the name I can get on the URL of the groupe ? (like “course-A” for example)

I tried to use the Name of the groupe (I don’t know where can I get the group ID) and it doesn’t seems to work.

Thanks !

Awesome Krischan ! Thanks for your quick reply ! I’m trying it right now.

The Get part seems to work.

But I have an issue on the Put action :

1 / Can you tell me which Content-type do I have to put in header ?
(I guess I still add my API Username and API Key)

2/ On the URL of the Put Action, do I have to use the group ID (in number, like 110 in your example), or can I use the name I can get on the URL of the groupe ? (like “course-A” for example)

I tried to use the Name of the groupe (I don’t know where can I get the group ID) and it doesn’t seems to work.

Thanks !

[Krischan]

Content type: multipart/form-data

No, I guess you have to use the group ID. You can get it eg. from the json file: https://meta.discourse.org/g.json

[Sebastien78 (Sebastien)]

Awesome, with this content type + group ID, it seems to work !

Thanks for your quick help Krischan!

[Sebastien78 (Sebastien)]

Hi Krischan !

Do you know if there is a way to notify the user by email to tell him he has been added to a group (with the Discourse API on Zapier) ?

I know it’s possible to tick a box, when we manually add email to a group on Discourse.

It could be good if I could trigger an email when my Zap is adding them to a new group.

Thanks !

[Krischan]

Why don’t you send him a private message with a post event?

[Sebastien78 (Sebastien)]

Thanks for your reply @Krischan !

Do you see a quicker way to notify the user ? (It’s ok if it’s a basic message from discourse, just like the one the user receives if I tick the checkbox “notify the users.”

Your solution is great, but as I have a lot of groups and automations, it could be great if I could just add “one” data type, for example to just “activate” the notification, instead of creating 30 new zap

[Krischan]

Sorry, I haven’t done this yet. But maybe this post can help you:

How to 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 o…

[Sebastien78 (Sebastien)]

Thanks for your reply Krischan !
I will check that

[Sebastien78 (Sebastien)]

Hi guys

Do you know if there is a way to Remove a member from a group, using the same logic explained upper ?

I noticed the API has a way to Delete group member : Discourse API Docs

But I’m not sure how to use it on Zapier

[Juliano_Madalena]

Hello,

I need some help here. I’ve followed all the instruction and the link was created. However, the link is not assign to an e-mail. The e-mail field is empty and the user don’t receive any e-mail.

See:

The results: