Automate Discourse Communication with n8n
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Streamline your Discourse community management by automating post creation, updates, and retrieval. This n8n workflow allows seamless integration with your Discourse forum for efficient communication.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow empowers you to connect with your Discourse community programmatically. It demonstrates how to initiate conversations by creating new posts, modify existing discussions with updates, and fetch specific post data for further analysis or action. By leveraging the Discourse node, you can automate repetitive tasks, ensuring your community stays active and informed without manual intervention. This workflow is ideal for community managers, support teams, and anyone looking to scale their Discourse engagement.
Key Features
- Create New Discourse Posts: Automatically generate new topics or replies within your Discourse forum.
- Update Existing Posts: Dynamically modify content of already published Discourse posts.
- Retrieve Post Data: Fetch detailed information about specific Discourse posts for analysis or subsequent actions.
- Trigger Workflows Manually: Initiate the Discourse automation process with a simple click.
How To Use
- Trigger Node: Begin by setting up a manual trigger (e.g., 'On clicking execute') to initiate the workflow.
- Create Discourse Post: Configure the first Discourse node to create a new post. Specify the
title,content, andcategory(using its ID). Ensure your Discourse credentials are set up. - Update Discourse Post: Connect the output of the create node to an 'update' operation Discourse node. Use an expression like
={{$json["id"]}}to dynamically reference the ID of the newly created post and provide thecontentto update. - Retrieve Discourse Post: Chain another Discourse node set to the 'get' operation. Again, use
={{$json["id"]}}to specify thepostIdof the post you wish to retrieve. The retrieved data will be available for subsequent nodes in your workflow.
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "4f4abebc-67bc-4dc4-9a21-7eee3972800a",
"name": "Automate Discourse Communication with n8n",
"nodes": 16,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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