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[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@rkaplan

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

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. You can also use the 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: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …