# Retrieve Information from a Telligent Community

To retrieve information from a Telligent community, create a new fetch task by following these steps. The connector runs each fetch task automatically, based on the schedule that is configured in the configuration file.

To create a new Fetch Task

1. Stop the connector.
2. Open the configuration file in a text editor.

3. In the `[FetchTasks]` section of the configuration file, specify the number of fetch tasks using the `Number` parameter. If you are configuring the first fetch task, type `Number=1`. If one or more fetch tasks have already been configured, increase the value of the `Number` parameter by one (1). Below the `Number` parameter, specify the names of the fetch tasks, starting from zero (0). For example:

       [FetchTasks]
       Number=1
       0=MyTask

4. Below the `[FetchTasks]` section, create a new TaskName section. The name of the section must match the name of the new fetch task. For example:

       [FetchTasks]
       Number=1
       0=MyTask

       [MyTask]

1. In the new section, set the following configuration parameters:

   `SiteUrl` | The root URL of the Telligent community.

2. Set the parameters required to authenticate with Telligent:

   - To authenticate using OAuth, first run the OAuth configuration tool as described in Configure OAuth Authentication. The OAuth tool creates a file named `oauth.cfg`, which contains the parameters that the connector requires to authenticate. You can include these parameters in the connector configuration file as follows:

         [MyTask] < "oauth.cfg" [OAUTH]

     For more information about importing parameters from another file, see Include an External Configuration File.

   - To authenticate with a user name and API key, set the following parameters:

     `Username` | The user name to use to log in to the Telligent community.
     `ApiKey` | The API key to use to log in to the Telligent community.

3. You can set additional configuration parameters to choose what to synchronize. For example, you can exclude specific blogs, calendars, forums, and so on. For information about the parameters that you can use to configure the connector, refer to the Telligent Connector Reference.

4. Save and close the configuration file.

   You can now start the connector.

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