What is the best method to create custom APIs on the discourse forum. Eg: I want to create a get request which gives me users.count, topics.count, categories.count How do I add this API into forum ?

You need to write a plugin. See Beginner’s Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 1: Creating a basic plugin

/admin/about.json Has most of that, I think. Or maybe it’s just /about.json.

Not exactly the same data, so I want to create custom JSON API.

I’ve been using GitHub - discourse/discourse-subscriptions: A Discourse plugin that allows payments and subscription management via Stripe. as a model for adding a model (you don’t need a full model, but discourse-subscriptions/config/routes.rb at main · discourse/discourse-subscriptions · GitHub gi…

Thanks @pfaffman Will look into it.

I was unable to create a custom page/API through plugin. Is there a beginner’s guide which I could follow ?? or any article that shows the basic steps. I have followed discourse guide and was able to add settings to plugin but was unable to create a new page. @pfaffman

I used the subscriptions plugin as a guide for one that I made. The plugin generator will generate a plugin with a new route. It’s complicated because you have both the rails and ember pieces to wrangle. If you want to add just a rails (api) route then it’s not too hard. (others might say that addin…

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Necesitas escribir un plugin. Consulta la Guía para principiantes sobre la creación de plugins de Discourse, Parte 1: Crear un plugin básico.

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