How can I call third party apis in discourse

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Hi,
I am wondering that is there any way by which we can call third-party custom API created in node.js in discourse?

feedback appreciated

Thanks

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Shouldn’t matter what the API is written in, if all interaction happens over http.

You will probably need to write some javascript ajax calls in a Theme Component, or if appropriate, make http calls in some new Plugin code you write in Ruby using a suitable Ruby gem like Excon or Httparty.

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Thanks for the reply @merefield I appreciate your feedback.
I am new to discourse development. Previously, I have done work on nodebb community CMS belongs to Nodejs. There, I have done a lot of customization ( created custom API to call Zoho tickets data, fetching the list of Vimeo videos a lot more). So I want to perform the same or need to create the same API(s) in it and render response data in some static pages to the user.

Thanks

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Use the backend to make the call:

  • if you need this to be secure,
  • if you need the backend to process the result
  • if the call(s) may be long running

If long running put it in a Job.

That will require some Ruby in a Plugin and one of the above mentioned gems.

It’s not necessarily all that easy to get into Discourse plugin development, it’s a big complex, opinionated platform, but there are good official guides on here and LOTS of existing open source plugins to look through (see #plugin and links to github). Try to find one that does something similar and look at how it is solved in code.

If it’s superficial consider a Theme Component. Look at the Theme Development guides on here.

Look at examples, like this one: discourse-tc-quote-of-the-day/get-quote.js.es6 at master · merefield/discourse-tc-quote-of-the-day (github.com)

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okay @merefield I am looking into it. Appreciate your feedback.

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