I looked at the API, but I don’t think it will do what I want (for one thing it requires the user to create an API key which isn’t going to be practical). What I want to do is have a way for my Mac application (Keyboard Maestro) to allow users to post content (from the application) to the forum. S…

Aren’t you referring to the URL that pre-fills a topic, title, etc? @techapj worked on this, and it now exists. [imagem] Creating a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information Using Discourse bookmark This documentation explains how to create a link …

Yep, that is close to what I am after. It would be good if it survived the login process if the user is not yet logged in, but it doesn’t currently I don’t see how it can be extended to support a file (or image) upload though, so that may be a problem. Can images/files be uploaded separately via …

[imagem] peternlewis: Yep, that is close to what I am after. It would be good if it survived the login process if the user is not yet logged in, but it doesn’t currently Any way we can get this to survive login, @techapj ?

Yep, sorry, that got dropped when I undid the previous patch. Excellent, that all works perfectly now, including the upload of the images/files. I’ll try to post a quick demo of how awesome this now is.

OK, I can’t upload videos to this site, but here is a short video showing just how cool this integration is, combined with the synchronous uploading files (thanks @zogstrip !) from Using the Discourse API to post with uploaded files? . This link probably wont last forever, but I’ll keep it alive for a…

There’s a website where you can upload videos and they’ll keep it around for a while :wink: [Discourse - Pre-filling a post, including uploads]

Fill in post for user?

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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) Junho 16, 2015, 1:53am 5

Fixed via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d1632c1dbd256411bbb348f638bb7f5f61f05eae

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