How can I post links to live reports or embed site activity?

[Lilly]

@alanr

site activity metrics

you can use API and Data Explorer queries to pull admin dashboard reports and stats to other apps:

Run Data Explorer queries with the Discourse API

This guide explains how to use the Discourse API to create, run, and manage queries with the Data Explorer plugin. Required user level: Administrator Virtually any action that can be performed through the Discourse user interface can also be triggered with the Discourse API. This document provides a comprehensive overview for utilizing the API specifically in conjunction with the Data Explorer plugin. For a general overview of how to find the correct API …

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 …