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Discourse

Business software

Built when you ask for it

Sync Discourse topics, posts, and category data into your warehouse. Ingest builds this connector the first time a customer asks for it, then keeps the tables current in a data warehouse you own, on the schedule you choose.

The Discourse connector syncs your forum data into analytics-ready tables in your data warehouse. Pull topics, posts, users, and categories from the Discourse API, with Ingest handling auth, pagination, and retries so the tables stay current.

What you would get

Each of these arrives as its own table, kept current on the schedule you choose:

  • Topics
  • Posts
  • Users
  • Categories

How it gets built

  1. Choose Discourse when you set up a pipeline, with the warehouse it goes to and a schedule.
  2. Ingest reads Discourse's documentation, and you choose the tables you want.
  3. Ingest builds the connector and tests it against Discourse itself.
  4. A person at Ingest reviews and publishes it, and your pipeline starts on its own.

What you will need

API key. An admin of the target Discourse instance generates the key from Admin > API panel, since each forum is self-hosted.

You enter it once, in a form in Ingest, and it is kept in a secret store set aside for your organization.

Questions

Does Ingest have a Discourse connector?
Not as a finished connector yet. Ingest builds it from Discourse's own documentation the first time a customer asks, tests it against the real service, and lists it once it passes.
Which warehouses can Discourse data go to?
Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL and Snowflake, in an account you own.
Do I need to write code?
No. Ingest builds, runs and maintains the connector. Someone with access to your warehouse connects it once, following a short guide.

Discourse API documentation: https://docs.discourse.org/

Setting up the destination is its own short guide, one per warehouse or lake: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL, Snowflake.

Other sources Ingest connects for SaaS teams: Asana, Jira, Airtable, Clockify, Facebook Ads, Frankfurter.

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