I was wondering if anyone has a simple javascript get example, to get topics from a certain category within a certain timeframe? I’m looking to pull data into Google sheets and I’m a bit rusty (and new to the Discourse reports API).

Thanks. I’ll try that when/if we upgrade our plan. In the mean time I did get something to work using the search API. Only strange thing is I can get topics and posts, but neither dataset is complete, and I really don’t want to start manually joining sets by topic id. (For example, the posts datas…

Use API to get topics for a period using js

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 27, 2023, 2:37pm 2

I think your best bet is the data explorer plugin and Run Data Explorer queries with the Discourse API

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Use API to get topics for a period using js

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