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Is there an API for lemmy instances? at least something similar to /.json? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by god@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Not sure about any info that is hidden to the default Lemmy-UI though

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 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