Autobot plugin for Discourse

Features:

Currently it supports importing from below

• YouTube Channel
• Website RSS Feed
• Twitter User Timeline

Options:

• Can configure how frequent Discourse should poll from source for content.
• Import content as either new topic or reply post for exsiting topic.
• Setting custom owner username for improted posts.

Settings:

• To import from any YouTube channels you have to configure Google API key in Site Settings.
• To import tweets configure twitter consumer key and secret.

Further Development:

• Ability to hide source URL for RSS feed imports. (via Campaign setting)

Installation:

Register a YouTube API key.

(Taken from Google deveeloper docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started)

• You need a Google Account to access the Google Developers Console, request an API key, and register your application.
• Create a project in the Google Developers Console and obtain authorization credentials so your application can submit API requests.
• After creating your project, make sure the YouTube Data API is one of the services that your application is registered to use:
• Go to the Developers Console and select the project that you just registered.
• Open the API Library in the Google Developers Console. If prompted, select a project or create a new one. In the list of APIs, make sure the status is ON for the YouTube Data API v3.
• If your application will use any API methods that require user authorization, read the authentication guide to learn how to implement OAuth 2.0 authorization.
• Select a client library to simplify your API implementation.
• Familiarize yourself with the core concepts of the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data format. JSON is a common, language-independent data format that provides a simpleext representation of arbitrary data structures. For more information, see json.org.

Add the plugin repo.

• cd /var/discourse/containers and edit app.yml .
• add repo to the plugin section: - git clone https://github.com/vinkashq/discourse-autobot.git .
• cd /var/discourse & ./launcer rebuild app .

Setup plugin for YouTube.

• Once your app has rebuilt, navigate to /admin/plugins/autobot/campaigns in the browser
• create "New Campaign" filling in the required details.
• Provider: select YouTube.
• Source: choose Channel
• Channel Id: to obtain a YouTube channel's ID, go to channel URL, click on "Videos", the ID will be the value after /channel/ and before /videos - copy this value into the "Channel Id" field.
• Category: selecting a category will import new videos to said cateory or ..
• Topic Id: alternatively, selecting "Topic Id" will add each video as a reply to that topic. Topic Id can be obtained from going to a topic on discourse and noting the number at the end of the URL.
• Polling Interval(in minutes): the polling interval is how long the plugin should reach out to the API.
• Username for post ownership: choose a username to be attributed to the posts.