This Python script allows you to create topics on a Discourse forum using the Discourse API. It can handle both single and multiple topics, with support for custom formatting, image embedding, and category assignment.

• Python 3.x
• requests library
• python-dotenv library
• tqdm library (for progress tracking)

1. Clone the repository or download the script.

2. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file in the root directory with the following content:

   DISCOURSE_URL=https://your-discourse-site.com
   API_KEY=your-api-key-here
   API_USERNAME=your-username-here

1. Prepare a topic.json (single topic) or topics.json (multiple topics) file.

2. Run the script:

   python create_discourse_topics.py

The script will load topics from the provided JSON file, create them on your Discourse site, and log the results.

• Supports creating a single topic or multiple topics.
• Handles markdown formatting, image embedding, and external URLs.
• Configurable retry limit and rate-limiting delay for API calls.

Logs are saved to discourse_topics.log and will also be printed to the console.