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title: "Discourse Forum Scraper for Ad Research"
description: "Scrape posts from any public Discourse community topic and turn them into ad angles in your audience's own words. No setup, no code."
canonical: https://tryadlicio.com/scrapers/discourse-forum-scraper
---

# Discourse Forum Scraper for Ad Research

Scrape posts from any public Discourse community topic and turn them into ad angles in your audience's own words. No setup, no code.

Discourse powers official product forums, open-source projects, and niche hobbyist hubs, where the most engaged users post long, specific threads about what's missing, what they switched from, and what finally worked. Adlicio reads the public posts under any topic and ranks the recurring feature gaps, switching stories, and complaints into angles, with the verbatim quotes underneath.

## What can you do with Discourse comments?

- Scrape a competitor's forum for the feature gaps its own users raise.
- Pull switching-from threads to find what makes engaged users leave a tool.
- Lift power users' verbatim language to write copy native to the community.
- Read the most-replied topics to find the desires that define a niche.

## How to do it with Adlicio

1. **Paste a Discourse thread URL**: Any public topic on any Discourse forum a logged-out visitor can read. No API key, no code.
2. **Adlicio reads the thread**: It clusters the recurring problems, workarounds, and feature complaints across every reply in about 60 seconds.
3. **You get ranked angles**: Each with a hook line and the forum quotes behind it, ready for Claude or ChatGPT.

## FAQ

### Does this need a Discourse account or API key?

No. Adlicio reads the publicly visible posts under a topic, the same content any visitor sees, with no login, no API key, and no code.

### What can it pull from a Discourse forum?

The public posts under a topic URL, the text and who posted it, which feed the same angle engine as every other source.

### How do I know a forum runs Discourse?

Many product, SaaS, open-source, and hobby communities do, the topic list with threaded replies. If the topic URL is public, Adlicio can read it.

### Is scraping Discourse posts allowed?

Adlicio only reads what is already public and takes no action on your behalf. It never posts, replies, or likes.

### What do I actually get back?

Ranked angles: the recurring feature gaps, switching stories, and complaints by frequency, a hook line for each, and the verbatim quotes behind them.

## Links

- This scraper: https://tryadlicio.com/scrapers/discourse-forum-scraper
- All scrapers: https://tryadlicio.com/scrapers
- Pricing: https://tryadlicio.com/pricing
- Start free: https://tryadlicio.com/signup