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Question: How to curl the lemmy API? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by egeres@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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I've seen these posts

But actually I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to get the posts a user has made in lemmy. I've seen this page but I think this is for a different lemmy instance, I'm not sure https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/GetPosts.html

Can anyone point me to a documentation on how to make this?

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

curl 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user?username=egeres&sort=New&page=1&limit=20' | jq .posts

https://join-lemmy.org/api/classes/LemmyHttp.html#getPersonDetails

The documentation is really terrible and the developers try to defend it anyways.

Some instances also employ cloudflare or other anti-ddos techniques that make automated API usage impossible.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Unofficial documentation using OpenAPI is here @egeres@lemmy.world .

Btw, the user interface uses the same API. Just open the web developer tools in your browser and look at the network tab.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

This is still written from a javascript perspective and assumes many things that are not true when using other approaches to calling the endpoints.

[–] expr@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Confused what you mean. OpenAPI has nothing to do with JS.

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