I want to take some action when there is a new topic. So I have a webhook enabled for Topic Events. I check the headers to see whether it’s a topic_created event, and if so, I take action.
This worked for many months but now fails sometimes, possibly after upgrading last week. Now sometimes I get topic_created in the headers, however the topic is actually old and someone simply replied to the topic.
My code:
event_type = request.headers['X-Discourse-Event-Type']
event = request.headers['X-Discourse-Event']
if event_type == 'topic' and event == 'topic_created':
take_action()
Example payload from a request that had event == ‘topic_created’ in the headers. Note the alleged “new” topic actually was created in 2017 and has 306 replies.
payload
{
'bookmarked': False,
'word_count': 272108,
'visible': True,
'like_count': 567,
'highest_post_number': 758,
'has_deleted': True,
'tags_descriptions': {},
'deleted_at': None,
'archetype': 'regular',
'id': 1357,
'pinned_until': None,
'archived': False,
'user_id': 4,
'title': 'Tax Time! Discussions of Taxes and Accountants',
'last_posted_at': '2022-01-05T01:41:26.000Z',
'tags': [],
'created_by': {
'username': 'redacted',
'avatar_template': '/user_avatar/forum.redacted.com/redacted/{size}/45_2.png',
'id': 4,
'name': 'redacted'
},
'pinned': False,
'queued_posts_count': 0,
'closed': False,
'unpinned': None,
'participant_count': 162,
'views': 19557,
'pinned_at': None,
'last_poster': {
'username': 'redacted',
'avatar_template': '/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/{size}.png',
'id': 142,
'name': 'JohnJacobs'
},
'pending_posts': [],
'posts_count': 744,
'slug': 'tax-time-discussions-of-taxes-and-accountants',
'thumbnails': None,
'created_at': '2017-01-21T00:25:01.000Z',
'deleted_by': None,
'featured_link': None,
'reply_count': 306,
'pinned_globally': False,
'category_id': 16,
'fancy_title': 'Tax Time! Discussions of Taxes and Accountants'
}