Hi everyone, I was trying to create a link sharer that works across Lemmy instances. The idea was to convert the federated url to a local url by using the api. You would save your instance of preference with the website, and it auto directs after a few seconds. However, I ran into one major problem. Both the search and resolveObject endpoints require authentication to do what I needed it to do.

An alternative would be to redirect to the search page, but that wouldn’t be much more convenient than just doing it yourself.

Does anyone have other ideas for tools (or etc) that could benefit us Lemmy users?

I already got a domain for this project, lemmy.express, but in the worse case someone could use it to run an instance on it.

  • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had to do something similar for the search engine I’m working on. What I’m currently testing is indexing the api/v3/post/list endpoint and matching on the actor_id to the internal id. The only major problem with this is that I now need to crawl the entire fediverse in order to support all of the different sites.

    • Mermitian@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh wow, that’s also a huge undertaking! It is kinda sad that the api/v3/resolve_object endpoint was working without auth before the 0.18 release. Maybe I can see if we can get an api endpoint specifically for this? Without needing auth and without returning all the post information that we aren’t interested in.

    • Mermitian@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      (Sorry for replying to your root comment, your reply isn’t showing on my instance)

      Ideally what I’d love is if posts worked like communities. For example you can navigate to https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and you’ll be taken to the community page on Lemmy.world. But if we could link to something like https://lemmy.world/p/1543053@lemmy.ml and land on a particular post, that would make having to do a lookup completely pointless.

      There is some good and some bad news for this. They are aware of this problem, and are having discussions to change it. But I don’t know when it is coming. And I agree that a lookup would be useless if we can simply create the url directly.

  • jadedctrlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your redirect idea would probably work excellently as a browser extension — there are are redirect extensions like that for Mastodon already, actually.

    As for the domain… the only thing I can think of would be, like you said, a Lemmy instance.