Django Aggregate a Lot of External Content -- Discourse

Aggregate last discourse post from a given discourse instance.

Plugin of 🤖 dalec.

Install the module:

pip install dalec_discourse 

In django settings INSTALLED_APPS, add:

INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... "dalec", "dalec_prime", "dalec_discourse", ... ] 

General usage:

{%loaddalec%}{%dalec"discourse"content_type [channel=None] [channel_object=None] [template=None] %}

Real examples:

Retrieves latest topics:

{%dalec"discourse""topic"%}

Retrieves latest topics from a category:

{%dalec"discourse""topic"channel="category"channel_object="15"%}

Retrieves discourse categories:

{%dalec"discourse""category"%}

Retrieves user topics and replies:

{%dalec"discourse""user_topic_and_reply"channel="user"channel_object="zorro"%}

Django settings must define:

• DALEC_DISCOURSE_BASE_URL : discourse instance url (ex: https://discourse.org/)
• DALEC_DISCOURSE_API_USERNAME : discourse username (ex: admin)
• DALEC_DISCOURSE_API_TOKEN : discourse api token (ex: azeazeaezdfqsmlkrjzr)

It could also define the login/password attribute, and then this auth method will be used (may be usefull for htaccess access for instance):

• DISCOURSE_AUTH_USERNAME
• DISCOURSE_AUTH_PASSWORD