Lemmy is so freaking wierd
I did: curl https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/api/v3/community/list
I got 4 communities and "egg_irl" wasn't there...? why it is on !egg_irl? I'm confused and the lemmy api docs aren't beginner friendly... ahhhh And I know the most of you know how to code.
I just looked at the Rust code from https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/api_common/src/community.rs
and it looks like you need to give it params to get what you need, i.e.
curl https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local\&sort=Active\&limit=50 | jqReturns the top 50 local communities sorted by Active
I had something like this recently, I tried to find the community "![email protected]" (found from lemmyverse.net) but searching that in the search bar gave nothing. I also searched vintage, and the first time I searched it that also yielded nothing, but the second time it did. There does seem to be a little inconsistency but I'm sure they're working on it! :)
Lemmy posted my bot created post in the wrong instance, I think Lemmy has problems with instances.
The search thing is normal if no other user on our instance has searched/subscribed to that community. Annoying but if you know you got the link right, hit reload and the server will usually have loaded it lol
Finding the docs for the API end points is a pain in the ass. Best I found is this but it seems to be version 1 of the API.
Looking at the communities/list end point I the request can have the following arguments.
{ op: "ListCommunities", data: { sort: String, page: Option<i64>, limit: Option<i64>, auth: Option<String> } }Looks like there are multiple pages you probably only got page 1.Try:
curl https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/api/v3/community/list?page=2On the Lemmy website when I click documentation for the api it just takes me to the JavaScript client directly!
You should be able to figure out the http calls from here.
thank you 💜