In light of the excellent analyses found in This Week's Winners, I've been inspired to create some fun analyses and dashboards around the posts in this community! While a few of the JSON endpoints exposed by Discourse are available without needing authentication, there are still quite a bit of others that require authentication to the site to view the JSON in the browser and are not able to be scraped in a regular R session. Obviously I wouldn't want to touch the admin endpoints, but is there a way for members that achieve certain trust status to earn API keys for the non-admin endpoints? FWIW I've been exploring using Scott Chamberlains's great discgolf package to use in my project and only a few of its functions are able to work without API keys.
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It looks like this isn't possible. I don't see an api key we could give you that wouldn't also give the ability to delete users and view emails.
Let me know if you can think of an alternative.