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:

{% load dalec %}

{% 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