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

[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 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…

How to run Data Explorer queries with the Discourse API

Thanks @simonstarr for putting that how to together! It’s very clear, and I appreciate that you included a custom parameter in your example. In the response of a test query, I see "default_limit": 1000. One thing that I’m still not sure of is how to handle large sets with the api. So I have two questions: Can I easily increase the default cap for result sets with >1000 rows? In a really large set (eg. > 1000000 rows) can you suggest a pattern for iterating through the subsets? My first take…

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…