Check out any other software that might be worth supporting

[nanos]

See here for list of software: https://fedidb.org/software

[nanos]

The following are the ones that I encounter the most frequently on my own instance's home timeline:

GoToSocial:

• Has an API fairly similar to Mastodon https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/api/swagger/
• But requires authentication for everything https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/2038
• Cannot be supported.

Friendica

• I supposed to have a Mastodon compatible API https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-mastodon
• But I get either a 404 or other error when I try to fetch context.
• The documentation seems to imply (although this is not explicit) that all methods require authentication.
• Therefore we probably can't implement it.

WordPress

• My Googleing fails me - I cannot find their API docs

[colinstu12]

I found a friendica post that seems to properly fetch when I search for it in masto web (doesn't work in Ivory however): https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-2066-778e-a9b1-719897452963 Not sure why friendica is so hard to explore / seems so locked down, not sure if that's just an instance configuration thing or what.

[nanos]

Thanks @colinstu12

I did try this. According to the docs, the API to get context should be the same as Mastodon: GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/context. However, when I try to get https://friendica.myportal.social/api/v1/statuses/e65e1095-2066-778e-a9b1-719897452963/context I only get back a 404. So I'm not sure if I need to convert that UUID into a different ID, or if the docs are wring, or if the endpoint requires auth, and the 404 is just a masked 403.

All very confusing 🤔

[nanos]

OK, so I'm a little bit closer here: Looking at the source code I find a reference to a numeric ID for this post, and if I use that it works:

https://friendica.myportal.social/api/v1/statuses/45055616/context

But how can I convert the GUID to a numeric ID?

[edent]

For WordPress, are you looking at ActivityPub powered ones, or just regular blogs?

[nanos]

@edent Yes, ActivityPub ones. Here is a node info example response:

{
  "version": "2.0",
  "software": {
    "name": "wordpress",
    "version": "6.5"
  },
  "usage": {
    "users": {
      "total": 1,
      "activeMonth": 1,
      "activeHalfyear": 1
    },
    "localPosts": 340,
    "localComments": 11
  },
  "openRegistrations": true,
  "services": {
    "inbound": [
      "atom1.0",
      "rss2.0",
      "pop3"
    ],
    "outbound": [
      "atom1.0",
      "rss2.0",
      "wordpress",
      "smtp"
    ]
  },
  "protocols": [
    "activitypub"
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "generator": {
      "name": "NodeInfo WordPress-Plugin",
      "version": "2.3.1",
      "repository": "https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-nodeinfo/"
    },
    "nodeName": "Symfony Station / The Payload Newsletter",
    "nodeDescription": "The Symfony Station Fediverse Account and Newsletter",
    "nodeIcon": "https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-Symfony-Station-No-Text-Astronaught-2C.png"
  }
}

[edent]

Sorry if I've misunderstood this, but I think this is the way to do it.

If you look at my blog's WebFinger - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:blog@shkspr.mobi - that points to https://shkspr.mobi/blog/@blog

If you request that with Accept: application/activity+json, you'll get back a standard AP document which says the outbox is https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/0/outbox

That's paginated, so should let you backfill all the contents.

[nanos]

Thanks @edent very helpful.

And would you know how I can fetch replies/context using ActivityPub? I think I looked into that a while ago, but didn’t get very far as it seemed extremely complicated (and iirc mastodon doesn’t even implement it, or something like that, which is why we now got the mess of implementing various APIs, rather than ‘just’ ActivityPub)