Disqus Zapier integrationAutomate Disqus with Zapier.
The Disqus Zapier integration offers 3 triggers and 0 actions. Disqus can start a Zap, never receive one: new comments, flagged comments and new email subscribers flow out to the rest of your tools. Here is how each trigger behaves and what it costs you.
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What the Disqus Zapier integration is good for
The Disqus Zapier integration sends what happens in the comment section of your site to your other apps, without code. Zapier checks your Disqus forum for new comments, flagged comments or new email subscribers, then hands each one to the next step of your automation.
Three things people build with it. A moderation alert: New Flagged Comment warns your editors in their team chat when a comment is flagged, so it gets reviewed before it spreads. A comment log: New Comment copies each comment into a spreadsheet, handy for a SaaS blog that wants to spot recurring product questions. A list that grows on its own: New Email Subscriber passes every opt-in to your email tool.
Now the limits. Disqus has no action on Zapier, so a Zap cannot post, reply to, approve or delete a comment. Moderation itself stays inside Disqus. There is no search step either, so a Zap cannot look up a past comment or a commenter. And all three triggers are checked on a timer, never pushed by Disqus, so a flagged comment can sit for a while before anyone hears about it on the free plan.
If you want to compare, see our Disqus n8n integration and Disqus Make integration pages for what the other tools offer.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven terms, one line each, used as-is afterward.
- Zap
- The automation you build in Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap, such as a new comment on your blog. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completed successfully. Your plan's allowance is a count of these.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer: it asks the app for its latest items and keeps only the ones it has not seen.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports itself, the moment the event happens. None of the Disqus triggers work this way.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
What a Disqus Zap costs
The checking is free; only the work done in other apps counts.
- Free plan100 tasks a month
- Free plan Zaps2 steps: 1 trigger, 1 action
- Premium appNo
- Trigger typePolling, all three
None of the Disqus triggers costs a task, however often Zapier checks your forum. Every action that succeeds in the next steps counts as one task, and a Zap with two actions counts both. A failed action is not billed. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps only, one trigger and one action. Add a filter and the Zap turns multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Disqus is not a premium app, so it runs on the free plan.
Connect Disqus to Zapier
- 01
Go to your Zapier apps
Open the Apps page of your Zapier account and click + Add connection. That page keeps every account you link to Zapier, so the Disqus login you add now serves all your Zaps.
- 02
Select Disqus
Search for Disqus by name in the dialog, pick it from the results and click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Disqus sign-in page, where the next step takes place.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in with the Disqus account that runs your site's comments, then authorize Zapier. The connection is stored and every Disqus trigger can reuse it in any Zap you build later.
Your first Disqus Zap: flagged comments to the editors
GoalAlert the editorial team in their chat tool when a comment is flagged, but only when it meets your condition.
- 01
Build the trigger
Start a new Zap, pick Disqus as the app that starts it and New Flagged Comment as the event, then select your Disqus connection.
- 02
Pick the forum and test
Choose the Forum that powers your site, then test. Zapier fetches the three most recent flagged comments so you can map real data in the following steps.
- 03
Add a filter
Click the plus icon and choose Filter. Fill in the field to look at, the rule and the value to compare with, and pick a text rule for text. The Zap is now multi-step.
- 04
Send the alert
Add your team chat app with its message action, pick the editors' channel and map the comment details from the trigger into the message. Test the step and read what came back.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish. The Zap now checks Disqus on your plan's interval, and only the flagged comments that pass the filter reach the editors.
The three Disqus triggers
3 events start a Zap when something happens in Disqus. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Flagged Comment
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a Disqus comment is flagged.”
Fires when a comment gets flagged on the forum you picked, and passes it to the next step so someone can look at it before the discussion turns sour.
New Comment
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new comment is left on a Disqus-enabled forum.”
Picks up every new comment left on a Disqus-enabled forum and hands it to the next step. It is the broadest of the three triggers, so it is the one that keeps the actions behind it busiest.
New Email Subscriber
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a user opts in to your email list. This trigger requires the forum to have a Disqus Pro subscription.”
Reacts when a reader opts in to your email list through Disqus, so the new subscriber can land in a newsletter tool or a CRM and your list stays in one place.
When a Disqus Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Disqus, so these are the traps every Zap shares, applied to comments.
When a Disqus Zap stays silent or misbehaves, one of these four causes is almost always behind it.
Past comments are not imported
A Zap only sees comments posted after you publish it. Years of discussion already on your blog never come through; moving that archive is a separate job.Loops through another app
If an action writes back into the place a trigger watches, each run sets the Zap off again. With no Disqus action, this only happens through another tool, but it drains tasks fast.A viral post floods the trigger
When one article suddenly draws a huge batch of comments, Zapier's flood protection can hold the batch back instead of running the Zap for each one.No duplicate comments
Zapier remembers what it has already seen on a polling trigger, so the same comment never starts the Zap a second time and no duplicate reaches your tools.
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