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?
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?