airbyte-custom-connector/source-discourse-fetcher

Discourse Fetcher Source

This is the repository for fetching data from Discourse forum, written in Python.

Usage

This connector fecth user and post data from a discourse forum instance.

Configuration

The connector takes the following input:

- api-key
- api-username
- url

Output

The connector will return the following:

• posts: List of post on the discourse instance.
• users: List of user on the discourse instance.

Local development

Prerequisites

Activate Virtual Environment and install dependencies

From this connector directory, create a virtual environment:

python -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Locally running the connector

python main.py spec
python main.py check --config sample_files/config-example.json
python main.py discover --config sample_files/config-example.json
python main.py read --config sample_files/config-example.json --catalog sample_files/configured_catalog.json

Locally running the connector docker image

docker build -t airbyte/twitter-fetcher:dev .
# Running the spec command against your patched connector
docker run airbyte/twitter-fetcher:dev spec

Run

Then run any of the connector commands as follows:

docker run --rm airbyte/twitter-fetcher:dev spec
docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/sample_files:/sample_files airbyte/twitter-fetcher:dev check --config /sample_files/config-example.json
docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/sample_files:/sample_files airbyte/twitter-fetcher:dev discover --config /sample_files/config-example.json
docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/sample_files:/sample_files -v $(pwd)/sample_files:/sample_files airbyte/twitter-fetcher:dev read --config /sample_files/config-example.json --catalog /sample_files/configured_catalog.json