Discourse API Keys

[sajattack]

Hey, just wanted to let you know discourse actually does support API keys for non-admins, it's just really poorly documented. There's some documentation here and here and some code here.

[mre]

Oh wow, that's great news. 😄
The second link mentions that write tokens need to be unlocked by the admins. Can you confirm that?
Would mostly be interested in announcing new episodes of "Hello Rust" on the Rust forum. Have you tried that, perhaps? (Was just thinking because your code is also written in Rust)

[sajattack]

Yeah I think I successfully posted to the "What are you working on this week" thread with it if I recall correctly.

[mre]

uh! that's cool. Will give it a shot if I find some time. 👍

[sajattack]

Yeah I just made another test post with it and it worked.

[mre]

Hum... started hacking on the Discourse support, but it doesn't work yet.
As a first step, I was trying to retrieve the API URL using your code snippet, but I get a 500: Internal Server Error.

The URL that is generated looks like this:

https://users.rust-lang.org/user-api-key/new?scopes=read%2Cwrite&client_id=b5b348a5bbc88ec83887f42e193483b7&nonce=7b53102ea5a3af47&auth_redirect=discourse%3A%2F%2Fauth_redirect&application_name=Discourse+TUI&public_key=-----BEGIN+PUBLIC+KEY-----%0AMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEArpA4ucx4mhZKihrPIeS7%0Advt9fuOt5VdYhyjGaZ4IZSCgBegu%2B3sNs4OoDil%2BHEvn1xQ9gt6muD3lgofue1fu%0AxTcnniz0zYqy3eNu8JTN%2FqwVPz5zf5qdQHg%2BqeC45LLxT%2FnVTgM8Pzc9sLhLtCgM%0A0mvRscFrAjHeBn3g%2FovTbYXj2%2BHguJDWjsF%2F1UJwNnmuxElVqxPO%2B44DL1kuP8V3%0AoSQ3HlMiC3DDJNDIbu%2F5zfWqB5o9tkhtLdwzJ1vdmgmcMIm7AsnwvYa%2Fj3p9hF57%0Aqf0hPhE5i%2B07XQZVo2gJgkZgxmYUWLofe%2Bt6rGoQf67rL2bhQDHn4GAUpP91ISZR%0ASQIDAQAB%0A-----END+PUBLIC+KEY-----%0A

Can you check if I made an obvious mistake?
Code is in this branch: https://github.com/hello-rust/hello/compare/discourse

[sajattack]

I think you have to strip the %0A's

[sajattack]

Actually, I just clicked the URL and it loaded up for me. Maybe it was a temporary outage or you need to be logged in in the browser?

[mre]

It's strange. The above link works for me now as well and it takes me to the login screen.
Recreated a new link and it doesn't work anymore (Error 500):

https://users.rust-lang.org/user-api-key/new?scopes=read,write&client_id=1ce9289742e7983713e558ac2c263ee4&nonce=714d3c3281d0595a&auth_redirect=discourse://auth_redirect&application_name=Discourse+TUI&public_key=-----BEGIN+PUBLIC+KEY-----MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAznh7RrdsmFtTc/0TvdmC7gyl32aP36H932I0Lt1hOo5sMNyVv8Tr1Q0sgCircIoNhBy+D1OabWoWQHc7xWZ29ih+V2gfl3WNyfRasktZPFjMKpqSeq7Q7Tfben7WEq1vmq1EdQ80bv3vN/fHdGcbeI2aPtBhuyjyAw8ok3chVXcrp5zsnseGpaQeBIrrh2A49oU1dUmMB8BTbtQ/eJkKJJoMsI+XkbfJmgU7mmd3048Tu/y+MupzSdo5IJ4RvRpI/q+vTwD8CDJ/yHjwXZ0remxdF0XFw/OD4Cnz1Qx+D/K8hKlaFldHLZY5tIn7a9cfyrdQahd8D9BDHLWixDj8xQIDAQAB-----END+PUBLIC+KEY-----

Maybe this link will also begin to work after a while? Maybe it's a backend job that needs to get triggered or something? No clue. 🤔

[mre]

16 hours in, second link still dead... 😕

[mre]

@sajattack, does the second link that I posted work for you? On my machine it doesn't while the first one works now.

[sajattack]

No it doesn't. I didn't mean that you should remove all the URL encoding.

[mre]

Oh. You're right. Funnily I was just rerunning the tool and then pasting the result here.
I could swear that I copied the link over verbatim but yeah, it works now. 😄

[mre]

Thanks so far. 👍
I guess the next step would be to register the app as a URI handler for discourse://auth_redirect as you did here.
Would like to do that cross-platform (Mac/Linux). Would be cool to have a separate crate for that, but I guess that's out of the scope for now.
Will do that when I find some time (or you'd like to do it, which would also be awesome, of course).

[mre]

Whelp, turns out there's https://github.com/maidsafe/system_uri, which we could use. 🎉

[sajattack]

Nifty.