Discourse

Access knowledge from your Discourse Topics

How it works

The Discourse connector indexes documents from your Discourse Topics.

Setting up

Authorization

1. Log in to Discourse

   Log into your Discourse account

   This Discourse user must have admin privileges

2. Open API keys

   Click the Admin menu from the home page. Open the Advanced sub-menu and select API keys.

   
3. Create API key

   Click New API Key, name it “Onyx”. Select “All Users” for User Level and “Read-only” for Scope.

   
4. Save and copy key

   Click Save. Copy the key and put it into Onyx.

   
5. Set API key username

   For the API Key Username, enter the username of the Discourse account which has access to the information you’d like to index.

Indexing

1. Name the connector

   Input a name for a connector (if you plan on creating multiple Discourse connectors, this will be used by you to tell between them)

2. Provide base URL

   Provide your Discourse’s base url.

   
3. Enter Topics to index

   Enter the Topics you wish to index. If left blank, all topics available will be indexed.

4. Start indexing

   Click connector to begin indexing the indicated topics.