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.
Oh wow, that’s also a huge undertaking! It is kinda sad that the
api/v3/resolve_objectendpoint 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.Ideally what I’d love is if posts worked like communities. For example you can navigate to
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]and you’ll be taken to the community page on Lemmy.world. But if we could link to something likehttps://lemmy.world/p/1543053@lemmy.mland land on a particular post, that would make having to do a lookup completely pointless.