gatsby-source-discourse-topic-list

gatsby-source-discourse-topic-list helps you source topic lists from the Discourse discussion forum platform and transform it into Gatsby nodes.

In addition to the topic list provided by the Discourse api, the plugin also fetches the raw text for each topic.

Getting Started

1. Install the package with yarn or npm

yarn add gatsby-source-discourse-topic-list

1. Add to plugins in your gatsby-config.js

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        {
            resolve: "gatsby-source-discourse-topic-list",
            options: {
                url: "https://my-discourse-server.com"
                endPoint: 'top.json',
            }
        }
    ]
};

Options

Name	Type	Description
url	object or string	Required. Url of your Discourse installation as a string. If you have two different APIs for development and production, define an object with the keys production and development.
endPoint	string	Required. Any Discourse API endpoint returning a topic_list.
rootKey	string	Optional. Name your API.

Example Discourse API endpoints

Latest topics in a category:

options: {
    url: "https://meta.discourse.org"
    endPoint: 'c/1.json',
}

Latest topics in a category, filtered by tag:

options: {
    url: "https://meta.discourse.org"
    endPoint: 'tags/c/bug/1/pr-welcome.json',
}

Top topics in a category:

options: {
    url: "https://meta.discourse.org"
    endPoint: 'c/support/6/l/top.json',
}

See the Discourse API documentation for a full list of endpoints.

Example result

Note the added raw field containing the full unprocessed post topic text.

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "username": "string",
      "avatar_template": "string"
    }
  ],
  "topic_list": {
    "can_create_topic": true,
    "draft": {},
    "draft_key": "string",
    "draft_sequence": 0,
    "for_period": "string",
    "per_page": 0,
    "topics": [
      {
        "id": 0,
        "title": "string",
        "fancy_title": "string",
        "slug": "string",
        "raw": "The full unprocessed topic text in markdown format", 
        "posts_count": 0,
        "reply_count": 0,
        "highest_post_number": 0,
        "image_url": {},
        "created_at": "string",
        "last_posted_at": "string",
        "bumped": true,
        "bumped_at": "string",
        "unseen": true,
        "last_read_post_number": 0,
        "unread": 0,
        "new_posts": 0,
        "pinned": true,
        "unpinned": {},
        "visible": true,
        "closed": true,
        "archived": true,
        "notification_level": 0,
        "bookmarked": true,
        "liked": true,
        "views": 0,
        "like_count": 0,
        "has_summary": true,
        "archetype": "string",
        "last_poster_username": "string",
        "category_id": 0,
        "pinned_globally": true,
        "posters": [
          {
            "extras": "string",
            "description": "string",
            "user_id": 0
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Multiple Sources? Multiple Instances!

If you would like to fetch multiple endpoints in your project, just instantiate the plugin multiple times. Just be sure to set a different rootKey for every instance.

Credits

This plugin builds on the excellent gatsby-source-custom-api by Andreas Faust. 🙏

Contributing

Every contribution is very much appreciated. Feel free to file bugs, feature- and pull-requests.

❤️ If this plugin is helpful for you, star it on GitHub.