# SQL to API Bridge

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-to-api-bridge/169403
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-to-api-bridge/169403 "2020-11-06T07:19:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![guidoleenders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/guidoleenders/32/196268_2.png) [@guidoleenders](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guidoleenders)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-to-api-bridge/169403/1 "2020-11-06T07:19:27Z")

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Unsure whether this is the right category.

Besides running Discourse hosted for our forums, we ship a custom SQL engine with many connectors. We are integrating the Discourse API as a supported connector on that platform and since Discourse is free to use we integrate it with the free Open Data license of the SQL engine. It works something like:

```sql
select count(*)
from users@discourse

```

and uses solely the APIs (no direct PostgreSQL access).

Primary use for ourselves is to integrate Discourse more tightly into our back-office processes like automatically registering users from the back-office on Oracle and registering events in our CRM to indicate forum activity of a user.

My question:

where should we enlist for registering this add-on? It is not a plug-in, it glues on to Discourse.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-to-api-bridge/169403/2 "2020-11-06T18:27:02Z")

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> [@guidoleenders](#):
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> where should we enlist for registering this add-on? It is not a plug-in, it glues on to Discourse.

While plugins are listed in either the #Customization > Plugin category, with official ones under the #official tag, third-party integrations should be announced in the #howto:tips-and-tricks category using a howto style topic.

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### Author: ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-to-api-bridge/169403/4 "2020-11-06T18:29:31Z")

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There is also #Customization > Extras which is for Discourse integrations that are not plugins.

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### Author: ![guidoleenders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/guidoleenders/32/196268_2.png) [@guidoleenders](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guidoleenders)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-to-api-bridge/169403/5 "2020-11-06T18:53:14Z")

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Thank you! That answer my question.