# Discourse

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/discourse/  
**Website:** https://www.discourse.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 16

At Discourse, our mission is to democratize online community and teamwork by raising the standard of civilized discourse on the Internet. We achieve this through delivering the best community and forum software. The Discourse API exposes administrative and content endpoints for categories, topics, posts, users, groups, tags, uploads, badges, and more.

## Kin Score — 33.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 43.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 23.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (16)

- **Discourse Admin API** — The Admin API from Discourse — 10 operation(s) for admin.
- **Discourse Backups API** — The Backups API from Discourse — 2 operation(s) for backups.
- **Discourse Badges API** — The Badges API from Discourse — 3 operation(s) for badges.
- **Discourse Categories API** — The Categories API from Discourse — 5 operation(s) for categories.
- **Discourse Discourse Calendar - Events API** — The Discourse Calendar - Events API from Discourse — 2 operation(s) for discourse calendar - events.
- **Discourse Groups API** — The Groups API from Discourse — 8 operation(s) for groups.
- **Discourse Invites API** — The Invites API from Discourse — 4 operation(s) for invites.
- **Discourse Notifications API** — The Notifications API from Discourse — 2 operation(s) for notifications.
- **Discourse Posts API** — The Posts API from Discourse — 5 operation(s) for posts.
- **Discourse Private Messages API** — The Private Messages API from Discourse — 3 operation(s) for private messages.
- **Discourse Search API** — The Search API from Discourse — 1 operation(s) for search.
- **Discourse Site API** — The Site API from Discourse — 2 operation(s) for site.
- **Discourse Tags API** — The Tags API from Discourse — 4 operation(s) for tags.
- **Discourse Topics API** — The Topics API from Discourse — 14 operation(s) for topics.
- **Discourse Uploads API** — The Uploads API from Discourse — 7 operation(s) for uploads.
- **Discourse Users API** — The Users API from Discourse — 23 operation(s) for users.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Discourse Agentic Access** — 93 operations · 53 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Discourse Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Discourse Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone
- **Discourse Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Plans (1)

- **Discourse Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Communities, Forums, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/discourse/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.