I’m in process of creating a query with data explorer with the APIs. I’m having a hard time finding the actual API call to create a query. There is an endpoint to run the query /admin/plugins/explorer/queries/<query_id>/run ; however don’t see to create it. Can anyone help ?

Thanks for sharing the article of Reverse engineer the discourse API ; I’ve gone through it and realised that there should be two separate calls need to be made. First should be, the POST call to /admin/plugins/explorer/queries , which will generate the ID associated with the query. Secondly, the…

You should be able to make a POST request with the same payload values as PUT. Did you try?

Here is the query which I tried by making POST API call. curl -X POST https://api-discourse-XXXXXXXXXXXXX/admin/plugins/explorer/queries -H “Content-Type: multipart/form-data;” -H “Api-Key: 46811cc32XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” -H “Api-Username: abcdefg2” -F ‘query={“name”:“…

I think the correct way is the following: -F 'query[name]=test1234' -F 'query[sql]=SELECT * FROM topics'

Thanks @Arkshine for the help. It worked..!!

How to create a data explorer query with the APIs?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 8, 2023, 5:09am 2

Have you tried to Reverse engineer the Discourse API?

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