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
    2·
    1 year ago

    Here’s what I could find on the api: There’s an API section1 of Lemmy documentation that describes some basic information and links to other resources. The LemmyHttp class 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

      nevermind, i actually did it now 4 minutes after complaining because i saw there’s code examples here:

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/ecc9469a02e63eab4e19093007c7ba6db0dca079/api_tests/src/shared.ts#L4

      this works:

      import { GetPost, GetPostResponse, LemmyHttp, Login } from "lemmy-js-client";

export interface API {
  client: LemmyHttp;
  auth: string;
}

export let alpha: API = {
  client: new LemmyHttp("https://sh.itjust.works"),
  auth: "",
};

let formAlpha: Login = {
  username_or_email: "username",
  password: "password",
};

export async function getPost(
  api: API,
  post_id: number
): Promise<GetPostResponse> {
  let form: GetPost = {
    id: post_id,
    auth: api.auth,
  };
  return api.client.getPost(form);
}

getPost(alpha, 1).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});