# How to get a JuliaLang Discourse API token

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [October 4, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506 "2019-10-04T23:48:08Z")
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### Author: ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/1 "2019-10-04T23:48:08Z")

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Hey all, who do I contact in order to get a DIscourse API token? @vchuravy are you an admin/moderator on here? I am going to make a `discourse-feed` channel on Slack.

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### Author: ![dilumaluthge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dilumaluthge/32/29283_2.png) [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/2 "2019-10-05T00:39:35Z")

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You may also find it helpful to ask in the #community channel on Slack

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### Author: ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/3 "2019-10-05T19:41:16Z")

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In short contact one of the [admins](https://discourse.julialang.org/g/admins)

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/4 "2019-10-05T22:09:50Z")

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What would that channel do? 🤔

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### Author: ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/5 "2019-10-06T01:25:36Z")

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Same as `StackOverflow-feed`. Just another way to stay up to speed and consume all of your Julia related stuff on Slack.

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/6 "2019-10-06T01:27:40Z")

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Like posting _every_ new thread?

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### Author: ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/7 "2019-10-06T01:46:04Z")

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That was my initial minimum working idea.

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/8 "2019-10-06T02:01:34Z")

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I personally see less value in this than in `#stackoverflow-feed`: I think the community of Discourse is closer to that of Slack than what the community of StackOverflow is. Also, a `#discourse-feed` would likely produce a larger traffic, I see that there are about 20 threads per day here.

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### Author: ![non-Jedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/non-jedi/32/3645_2.png) [@non-Jedi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/non-Jedi)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/9 "2019-10-06T03:15:29Z")

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If all you’d like is each new thread, may I suggest simply making use of the existing rss feed for this forum?

[https://discourse.julialang.org/latest.rss](https://discourse.julialang.org/latest.rss)

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### Author: ![Keno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/keno/32/285_2.png) [@Keno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Keno)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-a-julialang-discourse-api-token/29506/10 "2019-10-06T04:51:21Z")

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Remember that our slack only keeps the last 20k messages. I feel like consuming that limit with extra discourse messages is not necessarily worth it.
