# Interact with discourse from Python?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/interact-with-discourse-from-python/87543
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interact-with-discourse-from-python/87543 "2018-05-15T16:34:39Z")
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Some of the admin-specific calls aren’t in the API docs

I would open the network tab, go to the admin page, view the report with the data you want to retrieve, and then check the network tab to see what the browser loaded.

Which is really a summary of [Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576)

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