Python > Get post content if mentioned

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This is neat. Thanks for the info. There is not many information on Python x Discourse available out here, so happy to learn, and perhaps this will help others. I just tried your code, and it seems to work as expected. Of course, I didn’t stop playing, so I’ve found a workaround to get up until step 5, and a different way to get the values I needed all the way up to a raw paste of the post content.

What I want is basically this.

  1. Get notifications
  2. Get post_numbers
  3. Get post content
  4. Generate reply with OpenAI
  5. Post reply
  6. Mark that same notification as read?
# Set up a loop to run the bot indefinitely
while True:
    # Get user_actions and fetch post id    
    data = {
    'username': 'theuser',
    # For mentions and replies, I need to get filters 6 + 7, but for some reason only 1 json response is given.
    'filter': 6 | 7,
    'limit': 10,
    }
    
    unread_mentions = client.user_actions.json.get(data)
    print(unread_mentions)

    user_actions = unread_mentions['user_actions']

    # Loop over each unread mention
    for user_action in unread_mentions['user_actions']:
        topic_id = user_action['topic_id']
        post_number = user_action['post_number']
        post_id = user_action['post_id']
        username = user_action['username']

        print(f'Topic ID: {topic_id}, Post Number: {post_number}, Post ID: {post_id}, Reply to: {username}')
    
        # Get the post content   
        post = client.posts[post_id].json.get()

        # Print the post content
        post_content = post['raw']

        # Generate a response to the post
        response = generate_response(post_content)
    
        # Post a response to the forum
        content = {
            'topic_id': topic_id,
            'raw': response + ' @' + str(username)
        }
        make_post = client.posts.json.post(content)

Currently I’m having two problems:

  • Only 1 mention is fetched. I must’ve forgot something, but haven’t found out why yet.
  • Ofcourse we want to reply to a post only one time, and since we are looping we need something here to prevent this.
    • We can store the post_id in a .txt file (not sure how many data this can store, I think you can handle quite a few mentions here.
    • My ideal solution, was to mark the notification as read. But I came to realize in none of our code, we are fetching unread mentions (well, I tried at first, fetching unread notifications, but I was unable to extract/store the post_id variable which I needed to use /posts/get.json and fetch the “raw” content.

My end goal is to feed the response with OpenAI API. But I first need to find a way to sort out the problems above.