Is it possible to temporarily change the topic POST limits for the nodebb-plugin-write-api?

Currently, I have a JSON filled with backups from my old forum. I have been using the write API so that I can import all our forum posts over to our new NodeBB forum.

I created new users in NodeBB which map to all the old users in the old forum. My next step is to use the write-api to use all the stored pids per post and per topic to import all topics and posts to the new NodeBB forum.

The biggest problem I am having with this approeach is that I am running into POST limits. I get the following error when I post 6 times in a row with 1000 ms delays to the /api/v2/topics/:tid route:

{ code: 'internal-server-error', message: '[[error:too-many-posts-newbie, 120, 3]]', params: {} } } }

I looked into the error message, and I found it to be:

"too-many-posts-newbie": "As a new user, you can only post once every %1 second(s) until you have earned %2 reputation - please wait before posting again"

Now, I realize I probably should have just used an importer, but I did not think of looking for a plugin to import users/categories/topics/posts from an old forum until I had already written all the scripts necessary to use the write-api for that very purpose.

Is there any way to temporarily allow unlimited posts for new users? Or another workaround using the write-api?

Thank you guys!

That did the trick. Now nodebb-plugin-markdown is working great after pulling the latest updates from the NodeBB repository !!!

Thank you for the swift responses!

@PitaJ I did mean version 1.10.2, I corrected that typo in my original post

Below are the specs you requested:

node: v8.12.0
npm: v5.8.0
database: mongo v3.6.6
reverse proxy: nginx redirect

I am running the NodeBB server on an EC2 instance, and my mongodb database is in mLabs. I ran ./nodebb upgrade with no issues.

@baris

I have pulled up the full stack trace and it looks as such:

2018-11-05T17:42:13.089Z [27061] - ^[[32minfo^[[39m: Initializing NodeBB v1.10.2 http://xx.xx.xx.xx
2018-11-05T17:42:17.046Z [27061] - ^[[32minfo^[[39m: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: http://xx.xx.xx.xx:*
2018-11-05T17:42:17.571Z [27061] - ^[[31merror^[[39m: Error: Cannot find module '../meta'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:548:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:475:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/forum/path/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-markdown/index.js:9:26)
    at Module._compile (module.js:653:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.Plugins.requireLibrary (/forum/path/src/plugins.js:43:32)
    at registerHooks (/forum/path/src/plugins/load.js:183:13)
    at /home/ubuntu/ttk/old_forum/src/plugins/load.js:141:6
    at /home/ubuntu/ttk/old_forum/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3880:24
    at eachOfArrayLike (/home/ubuntu/ttk/old_forum/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1069:9)
2018-11-05T17:42:17.572Z [27061] - ^[[33mwarn^[[39m: [plugins] Unable to parse library for: nodebb-plugin-markdown
2018-11-05T17:42:17.939Z [27061] - ^[[32minfo^[[39m: Routes added
2018-11-05T17:42:17.945Z [27061] - ^[[32minfo^[[39m: NodeBB Ready
2018-11-05T17:42:17.951Z [27061] - ^[[32minfo^[[39m: Enabling 'trust proxy'
2018-11-05T17:42:17.955Z [27061] - ^[[32minfo^[[39m: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:4567

Hello everyone. I am having some trouble with the markdown plugin. I upgraded to NodeBB version 0.10.2 1.10.2 and in the process, the nodebb-plugin-markdown doesn't want to work properly anymore. When you try to make a post on my forum, the console gives this error:

My next solution was to try and rebuild NodeBB. I ran ./nodebb build, and then ./nodebb start, and I got the following in my logs:

at registerHooks (/home/ubuntu/ttk/NodeBB/src/plugins/load.js:183:13)
at /home/ubuntu/ttk/NodeBB/src/plugins/load.js:141:6
at /home/ubuntu/ttk/NodeBB/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3880:24
at eachOfArrayLike (/home/ubuntu/ttk/NodeBB/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1069:9)

2018-11-05T15:23:08.911Z [20023] - warn: [plugins] Unable to parse library for: nodebb-plugin-markdown
2018-11-05T15:23:09.243Z [20023] - info: Routes added
2018-11-05T15:23:09.250Z [20023] - info: NodeBB Ready
2018-11-05T15:23:09.256Z [20023] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
2018-11-05T15:23:09.260Z [20023] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:4567
(node:20023) DeprecationWarning: collection.update is deprecated. Use updateOne, updateMany, or bulkWrite instead.

Would anyone be able to help me debug this or find a solution so I can use markdown on my site again? I will also note that the Markdown extension in the ACP is not visible or reachable at all either.