Slackbot with Discourse Admin stats

[Konrad_Sopala]

Hey there everyone! Looking for a bit of guidance with out development process.

What we want to build?

A Slackbot will feed of data like (new users created, topics created, solutions created, likes given etc.) from our admin dashboard in Discourse and posting it on aa daily / weekly basis via the Slackbot to one of the channels we have in Slack

Question

Have anyone built something like that already? Any tips, guidance really appreciated!

[Konrad_Sopala]

I haven’t seem to find any API endpoints in Discourse API to be able to fetch that data

[david (David Taylor)]

You can fetch all the report data (well, any data in Discourse) via the API. Check out

How to 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. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. 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 XHR filter: [image] Perform the o…

For the report data, you can just add .json to the URL. For example /admin/reports/topics.json?end_date=2020-01-26&start_date=2019-12-26 will get you all the data for the topics report.