Slackbot with Discourse Admin stats

[david (David Taylor)]

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

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 op…

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.