This guide will walk you through setting up the Discourse integration.
The Orbit Discourse integration allows you to connect your Discourse instance to Orbit.
The integration will automatically create an Activity for any new topic, new reply, or user account creation, and it will save that Activity to an existing member's profile. If the post is from a person not already associated with your workspace, Orbit will create a new member.
🚧The Orbit Discourse integration only works with public Discourse hosts. Orbit will not be able to pull data from Discourse hosts that require a user login.
Initially, Orbit will import the last 12 months of activity with a limit of up to 100,000. If you'd like more history, just let us know.
If you're setting up a new workspace, you'll see the Connect Discourse button during setup.
If you're adding Discourse to an existing workspace, navigate to your workspace settings page, then to the Integrations tab and click the Discourse logo in the Plug & Play Integrations section.
You need to be a Discourse Admin to setup a new Discourse integration
📘You can opt-out of retrieving and using the members' email addresses available in Discourse. This will prevent us from populating your members’ emails, and linking their Discourse identities to any other we might have available in your community already (e.g. their GitHub or Twitter profiles). To do so, please send us an email at team@orbit.love with the name of the workspace you wish to opt-out and we will give you further instructions to proceed with the installation.
If you have a Discourse group for your teammates, the integration can automatically mark its members as teammates. You can get its ID by visiting the group page and appending .json to the URL.
After setting up your API key on Discourse, complete the Orbit form presented during the setup flow:
Finally, save the form.
Due to Discourse rate limits, the import will take from several minutes to several hours.
Discourse activity will now appear alongside other integrations in your reports.