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<span id="discourse-forums"></span><span id="discourse-engine"></span><h1>Discourse Forums<a class="headerlink" href="#module-searx.engines.discourse" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<aside class="sidebar">
<p class="sidebar-title">info</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Discourse">builtwith.com Discourse</a></p></li>
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<p>Discourse is an open source Internet forum system. To search in a forum this
engine offers some additional settings:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.discourse.base_url" title="searx.engines.discourse.base_url"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base_url</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.discourse.api_order" title="searx.engines.discourse.api_order"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">api_order</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.discourse.search_endpoint" title="searx.engines.discourse.search_endpoint"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">search_endpoint</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.discourse.show_avatar" title="searx.engines.discourse.show_avatar"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">show_avatar</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.discourse.api_key" title="searx.engines.discourse.api_key"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">api_key</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.discourse.api_username" title="searx.engines.discourse.api_username"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">api_username</span></code></a></p></li>
</ul>
<section id="example">
<h2>Example<a class="headerlink" href="#example" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>To search in your favorite Discourse forum, add a configuration like shown here
for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">paddling.com</span></code> forum:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">paddling</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">discourse</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">shortcut</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">paddle</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">base_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'https://forums.paddling.com/'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">api_order</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">views</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">categories</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="s">'social</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">media'</span><span class="p p-Indicator">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'sports'</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">show_avatar</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If the forum is private, you need to add an API key and username for the search:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">paddling</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">discourse</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">shortcut</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">paddle</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">base_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'https://forums.paddling.com/'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">api_order</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">views</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">categories</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="s">'social</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">media'</span><span class="p p-Indicator">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'sports'</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">show_avatar</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">api_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'<KEY>'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">api_username</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'system'</span>
</pre></div>
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<section id="implementations">
<h2>Implementations<a class="headerlink" href="#implementations" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
</section>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.discourse.base_url">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.discourse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">base_url</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">None</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.discourse.base_url" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>URL of the Discourse forum.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.discourse.search_endpoint">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.discourse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">search_endpoint</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'/search.json'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.discourse.search_endpoint" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>URL path of the <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Search">search endpoint</a>.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.discourse.api_order">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.discourse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">api_order</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'likes'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.discourse.api_order" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Order method, valid values are: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">latest</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">likes</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">views</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">latest_topic</span></code></p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.discourse.show_avatar">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.discourse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">show_avatar</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">False</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.discourse.show_avatar" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Show avatar of the user who send the post.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.discourse.api_key">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.discourse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">api_key</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">''</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.discourse.api_key" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>API key of the Discourse forum.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.discourse.api_username">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.discourse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">api_username</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">''</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.discourse.api_username" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>API username of the Discourse forum.</p>
</dd></dl>
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