# Exploring your Discourse Data with Discourse MCP

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-your-discourse-data-with-discourse-mcp/395383
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** data-explorer, ai, sql-query
**Created:** [February 6, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-your-discourse-data-with-discourse-mcp/395383 "2026-02-06T17:15:23Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-your-discourse-data-with-discourse-mcp/395383/1 "2026-02-06T17:15:23Z")

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We just added [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) integration to Discourse MCP, allowing both technical and non-technical users alike to explore the vast data on their Discourse instances.

The MCP uses the existing [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) workflow, running read-only queries in the live production database, and is able to create, run, update, and delete any [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) reports.

To get started, use the same flow as described in our [Discourse MCP is here!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-mcp-is-here/386983) blog post, provide an admin API key, and connect it to your favorite LLM.

Here it is together with Claude Cowork, connected to [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org)

> **My Claude Desktop MCP configuration**
>
> ```json
> {
> "mcpServers": {
> "discourse": {
> "command": "discourse-mcp",
> "args": [
> "--site",
> "https://meta.discourse.org",
> "--allow-writes",
> "--read-only",
> "false",
> "--auth_pairs",
> "[{\"site\":\"https://meta.discourse.org\",\"api_key\":\"goeshere\",\"api_username\":\"Falco\"}]"
> ],
> "env": {
> "PATH": "/path/to/node/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
> }
> }
> }
> }
> 
> ```

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