I’m looking for examples of calls to the Lemmy API… I’ve been to the following link in the documentation:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html

However I don’t see any direct examples of uses of the API for common cases, like creating a post, creating a comment or getting either type of item. Some of the linked documentation from that page points to what I believe is typescript code for interfaces, but that does not really have examples of actually calling those interfaces. I can make some logical guesses at to what the calls should be, but I don’t have a way to really verify this yet.

Does anyone have some working examples they can post?

  • megaman1970@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    Here’s a kind of guess on how to create a post using python’s requests library:

    import requests
import json

# Define the URL for the API endpoint
url = "https://lemmy.ml/api/v1/post"

# Define the headers for the request
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

# Define the data for the new post
data = {
 "name": "Your Post Title",
 "community_id": 123,  # Replace with your community ID
 "url": "https://your-url.com",  # Optional
 "body": "Your post content",  # Optional
 "nsfw": False,  # Optional
 "language_id": 1,  # Optional, replace with your language ID
 "auth": "your_auth_token_here"
}

# Send the POST request
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))

# Print the response
print(response.json())

    Does this look right? I understand that I’ll have to authenticate to the server to do this, but I’m really not sure how to do that.