Discourse API Documentation Released!

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Originally published at: Discourse API Documentation Released!

Today we would like to announce our much anticipated Official API Docs! You can find them at: http://docs.discourse.org Today, more than ever, an application needs to be able to integrate with other applications and the Discourse API allows you to easily integrate your Discourse forum with any other application. We do have a Ruby based…

[pztrick (Patrick Paul)]

Already nostalgic for the old “documentation”!

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…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

That is still useful if you want to know exactly what API calls are needed for a particular UI action!