I'd like to create an AI Chatbot for discourse

I wanna build an AI chatbot for a discourse forum but turns out we wont get the API access, Is there any potential way to still be able to automate sending messages and getting replies from there? maybe webscraping is a thing, but that only gets the reply IG

I have the AI backend ready and I just want a way to automate the interaction with the forum

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i think you have your answer then

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guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 2:57 AM

wait so what are you actually trying to do

guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 2:57 AM

and what platform are you trying to do this on

guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 2:57 AM

and have you checked the terms and conditions to make sure you can actually do this

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ⓘ 3zs•8/10/25, 2:58 AM

wait so what are you actually trying to do (translated)

Gguninvalid? more like stupidvali wait so what are you actually trying to do

Loading...OP•8/10/25, 2:59 AM

alr, So we've made a Discord bot for our community and it has wild responses, We'd like to build a discourse one, but sadly we wont be getting api access

Gguninvalid? more like stupidvali and what platform are you trying to do this on

Loading...OP•8/10/25, 2:59 AM

Discourse

guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 2:59 AM

what is discourse?

Gguninvalid? more like stupidvali what is discourse?

Loading...OP•8/10/25, 2:59 AM

just google it?

guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 3:01 AM

You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.

via https://meta.discourse.org/tos

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Learn about and discuss Discourse, the next-generation open-source forum software.

guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 3:01 AM

doesn't look like this is something you can do sorry

Gguninvalid? more like stupidvali doesn't look like this is something you can do sorry

Loading...OP•8/10/25, 3:01 AM

alright, thanks for the time

Loading...OP•8/10/25, 3:02 AM

maybe I'll just ask for the API

guninvalid? more like stupidvali•8/10/25, 3:02 AM

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rest-api-comprehensive-examples/274354

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Discourse REST API comprehensive examples

There are several guides covering various API uses or explanations. This one gives practical and comprehensive examples on how to use it.

All code examples in this guide aren’t meant to display good practice or to be used as they are. A lot of checks, error handling and so on are purposely ignored or skipped to focus purely on the API...