Best Practise for Using a Raspberry PI as Bot for Posting Updates in Discourse

[elRicharde (Richard Gruhle)]

Hi Folks,

I´m looking for the best way (or a good documented way / beginner guide) to set up a Bot Updating a Post in Discourse.
We want to use a Raspi to Check some Switches and depending on there state we want to update a Post in our Forum.

Any good advice welcome. Thx in Advance.

Richarde

[Pravi (PK)]

Inorder to update a post remotely you have to either configure an email receiver or you may depend on discourse API.

[elRicharde (Richard Gruhle)]

Thx @Pravi
Is there any beginners guides to this?

Thanks in Advance

Edit: while thinking about the possibilities the API brings, I would prefer that solution.
Will start to dig now for informations about setting that up… any hints welcome.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

You can use this gem to connect to your discourse and perform any operations you need.

Use the Discourse API ruby gem

So you want to use Discourse API? Great! Let’s get started. Set up Discourse development environment Set up Discourse development environment using our Windows, OS X or Ubuntu guide. Clone Discourse API Gem Now that you have set up Discourse development environment, you should already have Git and Ruby installed on your system. You can install Discourse API gem by running following command from console: git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api.git ~/discourse_api Install dep…

[Pravi (PK)]

I have never used the discourse API before. So I am unable to help you with API. But I hope the following links will help you get started.

https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=discourse%20api

Discourse REST API Documentation

Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: https://docs.discourse.org Deprecation Warning! On April 6th, 2020 we dropped support for all non-HTTP header based authentication (excluding some rss, mail-receiver, and ics routes). This means that API requests that have an api_key and api_username in the query params or in the HTTP body of the request will soon stop working. Please see the example cURL request below for how to update your API requ…

https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-run-data-explorer-queries-with-the-discourse-api/120063/2

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…

[elRicharde (Richard Gruhle)]

I´m on the way:

what I´ve done so far:

• generating a Api Key
• writing a few Put and a Get request in Postman which worked perfectly
• exported the collection as json file

I know there is a ruby framework for the API but i would prefer python as a did some scripts there already.

Anyone has an idea how to proceed?

best regards
Richarde

[elRicharde (Richard Gruhle)]

Ok, I just found pydiscourse and that seems to work pretty good

So the Step setting everything up in Postman wasn´t necessary but helped to understand the logic of the api - so it wasn´t a complete waste of time

in short - if you want to interact with your discourse via python you can use pydiscourse by

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