The API docs on join-lemmy.org are actually JavaScript SDK docs, not API docs. I want to build an API client in a different language, not write a JavaScript thing using the SDK, and would prefer not to plumb the JS SDK code to understand the API.
Is there somewhere that has a language-agnostic description of Lemmy’s APIs?
This post is very old, but it’s what came up when I googled it, so for anyone else, here’s some basic scripts for logging in and then using the authentication to get something that may help you get started in exploring the API.
This is just what I was looking for! Thank you 🍋
The HTTP docs are what you want: https://join-lemmy.org/api/classes/LemmyHttp.html#getPost
It tells you the full input and output types, and if you click the defined in link, it shows you the endpoint you can use for curl.
Example from above:
return this.wrapper(HttpType.Get, '/post', form);We do it this way because the lemmy-js-client exactly matches what you need to build a client, and is completely auto-generated. Before we used to manually maintain other API docs, and it was a huge hassle to keep them updated.
