API deficiencies

[bbepis]

There's a lot of issues with the API that cause a degraded experience for archival software, since there's a few things that are available through the HTML but not from the API:

• File spoiler status is missing
• File deletion status is missing
• Thumbnail extensions. This is a massive one because some forks or old versions force all thumbnails to be .jpg or .webp, otherwise the thumbnail extension isn't obvious and has to be guessed, usually incorrectly (.jpg -> .jpg, .png -> .png, .webm -> .jpg?)
• Custom thumbnail for some non-image formats (swf, pdf) isn't specified. i.e. on soyjak.party, .swf files use /static/swf.jpg as the thumbnail, however this isn't shown in the API
• Raw post markdown. I'm aware there's ___body_nomarkup on soyjak however that seems to be site-specific and not included in upstream / other instances.

I'm not sure if the feature exists upstream, but since soyjak devs are the one maintaining this repo:

• Poster ID (/q/) is not exposed through the API

There's this old github page for vichan API that seems to have been abandoned for 10+ years, and details some of these missing fields I've mentioned https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan-API

[RealAngeleno]

I don't develop for soyjak.party anymore, but nudev is aware of these. I'll try to answer your questions in a sec.