Programming

Okay, before I head off to bed, I think this works for the login and authentication token:

import requests
import json

def login(username_or_email, password):
    # Define the URL for the login endpoint
    url = "https://lemmy.ml/api/v1/user/login"

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

    # Define the data for the login
    data = {
     "username_or_email": username_or_email,
     "password": password
    }

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

    # Extract the JWT from the response
    jwt = response.json().get('jwt')

    return jwt

# Use the login function
jwt = login("your_username_or_email", "your_password")
print(jwt)

The JSON Web Token (jwt) should contain the authentication token. At least I think that's the case. I picked this out by reading through the Go code at the following URL: https://github.com/Elara6331/go-lemmy/blob/master/lemmy.go

I'll play around with the code later.

There's a typescript client here, you could look at that for examples, I can't see any dedicated API documentation anywhere https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/tree/main/src

See more details in this issue here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2937

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.

If Lemmy doesn't have it the community could open source a swagger doc for the api

Here's another example, this time for creating a comment:

import requests
import json

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

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

# Define the data for the new comment
data = {
 "content": "Your comment content",
 "post_id": 123,  # Replace with the ID of the post you're commenting on
 "form_id": "your_form_id",  # Replace with your form 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 anyone know how to do the login process in Lemmy, and retrieve an auth token?

If someone has a write-up of Lemmy's architecture, I would also be interested.

I don't have the time or expertise to sift through the rust code.