Sphinx extension that embeds a Discourse topic inside a page

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/pdavide/sphinxcontrib-discourse

Add sphinxcontrib.discourse to extensions in your conf.py. Add your documentation domain to "Enabled Domains" in your Discourse admin settings.

Usage

In your conf.py add a discourse_url variable containing the URL if your Discourse instance (with http:// or https:// and trailing slash).

Insert the discourse directive in the rST source of your documentation like this:

.. discourse::
   :topic_identifier: <topic_id>

where <topic_id> is a number identifying a topic in a Discourse instance. To find a topic_id refer to this general Discourse URL structure: /t/<topic_name>{/<topic_id>{/<post_id>}}}.

References

• Embedding Discourse Comments via Javascript

Licenses

BSD-3-Clause.