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Discourse Community Scraper

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Scrape any public Discourse forum with latest topics, trending discussions, category browsing, tag filtering, full-text search, user profiles, and complete post threads. Works with meta.discourse.org, community forums, and any self-hosted Discourse.

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Crawler Bros

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You can access the Discourse Community Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "forumUrl": "https://meta.discourse.org",
10    "mode": "latestTopics",
11    "period": "weekly",
12    "searchQuery": "getting started",
13    "maxItems": 50,
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("crawlerbros/discourse-community-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
21for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Discourse Community Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Discourse Community Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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5.0

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GetDataForMe

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Lexis Solutions

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