megaman1970

joined 1 year ago
[–] megaman1970 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll revamp my code when I start testing it later. I think eventually I'll put together a python library for interacting with Lemmy, or at least give enough of an example that someone else can get a good start.

[–] megaman1970 3 points 1 year ago

I just use ChatGPT with JetBrains tools, it works pretty well. Make sure you go for the paid model, though. It really is better than the free one, and I often use it to lay groundwork that I flesh out in the free model.

[–] megaman1970 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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Lemmy API Examples (self.programming)
submitted 1 year ago by megaman1970 to c/programming
 

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 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is awesome! how soon until Beehaw is federated with them?

[–] megaman1970 9 points 1 year ago

How about extending the software so that communities replicate between sets of servers over time? That way, things are more robust even if one server goes down.

[–] megaman1970 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has anyone considered creating a bridging API interface for lemmy? Something that can translate between the lemmy and reddit API to make this easier?

[–] megaman1970 1 points 1 year ago

There was one time a good while back where I used window functions to perform edge detection in a dataset. I'll see if I can dig up that query later.

[–] megaman1970 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, that's pretty neat. Perhaps you could wrap a the OrderType view in a CTE and join on that to get the values back?

[–] megaman1970 2 points 1 year ago

Those work, but require a lot of careful structuring to get right, and can be a pain to debug. With a CTE, you can just call on the intermediate steps to trace down problems.

 

For me, it's CTE's. I find it amazing to complete a calculation with clear intermediate steps, and goes a long way towards convincing people to use SQL rather than Excel to perform calculations on large tables of data.

What construct do you like using on a daily basis?

[–] megaman1970 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I do get a lot of alerts from Google as new topics come in, and I could post those links. That's mostly the way things are handled in the Futurology and Science subs. Posting those to Lemmy communities should work, I think. I guess I worry about swamping a community with traffic, but if so, I guess whoever manages that community can let me know to dial it back.

[–] megaman1970 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I can't see a reason either, but from a community standpoint is that okay?

[–] megaman1970 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wasn't thinking about reuploading comments, just submissions. There are a lot of submissions that would be interesting to discuss here as separate conversations away from reddit. For example, Futurology, Science, Finance, and even Aww and Eyebleach have some nice things to discuss.

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