# Data Explorer Queries accessible to public

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-queries-accessible-to-public/106127
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** data-explorer
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-queries-accessible-to-public/106127 "2019-01-09T23:17:43Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-queries-accessible-to-public/106127/6 "2019-01-10T06:01:53Z")

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> [@rkaplan](#):
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> If I wanted to write my own front-end to display the data - is it possible for me to determine the credentials to access the database for my forum hosted on Digital Ocean?

Discourse has a very robust API, the sky is the limit.

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. 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: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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