Hi I’m looking for how to make some bookmarklets to browse a few things in a different way. Is there some way to at least get a json of a post/community/user to view some info that isn’t readily available on the UI?

  • csos95@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s an API section1 of Lemmy documentation that describes some basic information and links to other resources.
    The LemmyHttp class2 in the linked lemmy-js-client documentation lists out the endpoints, parameters, and return values.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      been playing with it for like 20 minutes and it seems like the documentation and the code are different, so i can’t implement any of what they say i can, been trying to just find the answers in the code with no luck cuz apparently the repo is all typescript and there’s no code in the main repo, idk where this client’s source code is.

      have u been able to do any requests w it?

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      yeah there’ is a lot of info there i found that is hidden on the UI but it’s not enough to switch a post’s url to another instance sadly. Seems there’s no permlink or unique ID that is searchable, only a post id on the local server and a post id on the remote server but there’s nothing like /c/community/permlink, it’s all post/numbers and the numbers are different on each instance

      here’s an example response from the api when u get a post or comment:

      https://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/post?id=1000