Discourse Forums¶

Discourse is an open source Internet forum system. To search in a forum this engine offers some additional settings:

base_url
api_order
search_endpoint
show_avatar
api_key
api_username

Example¶

To search in your favorite Discourse forum, add a configuration like shown here for the paddling.com forum:

- name: paddling
  engine: discourse
  shortcut: paddle
  base_url: 'https://forums.paddling.com/'
  api_order: views
  categories: ['social media', 'sports']
  show_avatar: true

If the forum is private, you need to add an API key and username for the search:

- name: paddling
  engine: discourse
  shortcut: paddle
  base_url: 'https://forums.paddling.com/'
  api_order: views
  categories: ['social media', 'sports']
  show_avatar: true
  api_key: '<KEY>'
  api_username: 'system'

Implementations¶

searx.engines.discourse.api_key = ''¶: API key of the Discourse forum.

searx.engines.discourse.api_order = 'likes'¶: Order method, valid values are: latest, likes, views, latest_topic

searx.engines.discourse.api_username = ''¶: API username of the Discourse forum.

searx.engines.discourse.base_url: str = None¶: URL of the Discourse forum.

searx.engines.discourse.search_endpoint = '/search.json'¶: URL path of the search endpoint.

searx.engines.discourse.show_avatar = False¶: Show avatar of the user who send the post.