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Friendica API
Overview
Friendica provides the following specific endpoints.
Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs.
Entities
These endpoints uses the Friendica API entities.
Endpoints
GET api/friendica/events
Returns a list of Event entities for the current logged in user.
Parameters
since_id
: (optional) minimum event id for paginationcount
: maximum number of items returned, default 20
POST api/friendica/event_create
Create a new event for the current logged in user.
Parameters
id
: (optional) id of event, event will be amended if suppliedname
: name of the event (required)start_time
: start of the event (ISO), requiredend_time
: (optional) end of the event, event is open end, if not supplieddesc
: (optional) description of the eventplace
: (optional) location of the eventpublish
: (optional) create message for eventallow_cid
: (optional) ACL-formatted list of allowed contact ids if private eventallow_gid
: (optional) ACL-formatted list of disallowed contact ids if private eventdeny_cid
: (optional) ACL-formatted list of allowed group ids if private eventdeny_gid
: (optional) ACL-formatted list of disallowed group ids if private event
POST api/friendica/event_delete
Delete event from calendar (not the message)
Parameters
id
: id of event to be deleted
GET api/externalprofile/show
Returns a Contact entity for the provided profile URL.
Parameters
profileurl
: Profile URL
GET api/statuses/public_timeline
Returns a list of public Items posted on this node. Equivalent of the local community page.
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idexclude_replies
: don't show replies (default: false)conversation_id
: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.include_entities
: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
Unsupported parameters
trim_user
GET api/statuses/networkpublic_timeline
Returns a list of public Items this node is aware of. Equivalent of the global community page.
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idexclude_replies
: don't show replies (default: false)conversation_id
: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.include_entities
: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
GET api/statuses/replies
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idinclude_entities
: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
Unsupported parameters
include_rts
trim_user
contributor_details
GET api/conversation/show
Unofficial Twitter command. It shows all direct answers (excluding the original post) to a given id.
Parameters
id
: id of the postcount
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idinclude_entities
: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
Unsupported parameters
include_rts
trim_user
contributor_details
GET api/statusnet/conversation
Alias of api/conversation/show
.
GET api/statusnet/config
Returns the public Friendica node configuration.
GET api/gnusocial/config
Alias of api/statusnet/config
.
GET api/statusnet/version
Returns a fake static StatusNet protocol version.
GET api/gnusocial/version
Alias of api/statusnet/version
.
POST api/friendica/activity/[verb]
Add or remove an activity from an item. 'verb' can be one of:
like
dislike
attendyes
attendno
attendmaybe
To remove an activity, prepend the verb with "un", eg. "unlike" or "undislike" Attend verbs disable eachother: that means that if "attendyes" was added to an item, adding "attendno" remove previous "attendyes". Attend verbs should be used only with event-related items (there is no check at the moment).
Parameters
id
: item id
Return values
On success: json:
"ok"
xml:
<ok>true</ok>
On error: HTTP 400 BadRequest
GET api/direct_messages
Deprecated Twitter received direct message list endpoint.
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idgetText
: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"include_entities
: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)friendica_verbose
: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")
Unsupported parameters
skip_status
GET api/direct_messages/all
Returns all Private Messages.
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idgetText
: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"friendica_verbose
: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")
GET api/direct_messages/conversation
Returns all replies of a single private message conversation. Returns Private Messages
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idgetText
: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"uri
: URI of the conversationfriendica_verbose
: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")
GET api/direct_messages/sent
Deprecated Twitter sent direct message list endpoint. Returns Private Messages.
Parameters
count
: Items per page (default: 20)page
: page numbersince_id
: minimum idmax_id
: maximum idgetText
: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"include_entities
: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)friendica_verbose
: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")
POST api/direct_messages/new
Deprecated Twitter direct message submission endpoint.
Parameters
user_id
: id of the userscreen_name
: screen name (for technical reasons, this value is not unique!)text
: The messagereplyto
: ID of the replied direct messagetitle
: Title of the direct message
POST api/direct_messages/destroy
Deprecated Twitter direct message deletion endpoint.
Parameters
id
: id of the message to be deletedinclude_entities
: optional, currently not yet implementedfriendica_parenturi
: optional, can be used for increased safety to delete only intended messagesfriendica_verbose
: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")
Return values
On success:
- JSON return as defined for Twitter API not yet implemented
- on friendica_verbose=true: JSON return {"result":"ok","message":"message deleted"}
On error: HTTP 400 BadRequest
- on friendica_verbose=true: different JSON returns {"result":"error","message":"xyz"}
GET api/friendica/direct_messages_setseen
Parameters
id
: id of the message to be updated as seen
Return values
On success:
- JSON return
{"result": "ok", "message": "message set to seen"}
On error:
- different JSON returns
{"result": "error", "message": "xyz"}
GET api/friendica/direct_messages_search (GET; AUTH)
Returns Private Messages matching the provided search string.
Parameters
searchstring
: string for which the API call should search as '%searchstring%' in field 'body' of all messages of the authenticated user (caption ignored)getText
(optional):plain
|html
If ommited, the title is prepended to the plaintext body in thetext
attribute of the private message objects.getUserObjects
(optional):true
|false
Iffalse
, thesender
andrecipient
attributes of the private message object are absent.
Return values
Returns only tested with JSON, XML might work as well.
On success:
- JSON return
{"success":"true", "search_results": array of found messages}
- JSOn return
{"success":"false", "search_results": "nothing found"}
On error:
- different JSON returns
{"result": "error", "message": "searchstring not specified"}
GET api/friendica/group_show
Return all or a specified group of the user with the containing contacts as array.
Parameters
gid
: optional, if not given, API returns all groups of the user
Return values
Array of:
name
: name of the groupgid
: id of the groupuser
: array of Contacts
POST api/friendica/group_create
Create the group with the posted array of contacts as members.
Parameters
name
: name of the group to be created
POST data
JSON data as Array like the result of GET api/friendica/group_show:
gid
name
- List of Contacts
Return values
Array of:
success
: true if successfully created or reactivatedgid
: gid of the created groupname
: name of the created groupstatus
: "missing user" | "reactivated" | "ok"wrong users
: array of users, which were not available in the contact table
POST api/friendica/group_update
Update the group with the posted array of contacts as members (post all members of the group to the call; function will remove members not posted).
Parameters
gid
: id of the group to be changedname
: name of the group to be changed
POST data
JSON data as array like the result of GET api/friendica/group_show:
gid
name
- List of Contacts
Return values
Array of:
success
: true if successfully updatedgid
: gid of the changed groupname
: name of the changed groupstatus
: "missing user" | "ok"wrong users
: array of users, which were not available in the contact table
POST api/friendica/group_delete
Delete the specified group of contacts; API call need to include the correct gid AND name of the group to be deleted.
Parameters
gid
: id of the group to be deletedname
: name of the group to be deleted
Return values
Array of:
success
: true if successfully deletedgid
: gid of the deleted groupname
: name of the deleted groupstatus
: "deleted" if successfully deletedwrong users
: empty array
GET api/friendica/notifications
Return last 50 Notifications for the current user, ordered by date with unseen item on top.
Parameters
none
POST api/friendica/notifications/seen
Set notification as seen.
Parameters
id
: id of the notification to set seen
Return values
If the note is linked to an item, returns an Item.
Otherwise, a success status is returned:
success
(json) |<status>success</status>
(xml)
GET api/friendica/photo
Returns a Photo.
Parameters
photo_id
: Resource id of a photo.scale
: (optional) scale value of the photo
Returns data of a picture with the given resource. If 'scale' isn't provided, returned data include full url to each scale of the photo. If 'scale' is set, returned data include image data base64 encoded.
possibile scale value are:
- 0: original or max size by server settings
- 1: image with or height at <= 640
- 2: image with or height at <= 320
- 3: thumbnail 160x160
- 4: Profile image at 300x300
- 5: Profile image at 80x80
- 6: Profile image at 48x48
An image used as profile image has only scale 4-6, other images only 0-3
Return values
json:
{
"id": "photo id",
"created": "date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)",
"edited": "date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)",
"title": "photo title",
"desc": "photo description",
"album": "album name",
"filename": "original file name",
"type": "mime type",
"height": "number",
"width": "number",
"profile": "1 if is profile photo",
"link": {
"<scale>": "url to image",
...
},
// if 'scale' is set
"datasize": "size in byte",
"data": "base64 encoded image data"
}
xml:
<photo>
<id>photo id</id>
<created>date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)</created>
<edited>date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)</edited>
<title>photo title</title>
<desc>photo description</desc>
<album>album name</album>
<filename>original file name</filename>
<type>mime type</type>
<height>number</height>
<width>number</width>
<profile>1 if is profile photo</profile>
<links type="array">
<link type="mime type" scale="scale number" href="image url"/>
...
</links>
</photo>
GET api/friendica/photos/list
Returns the API user's Photo List Items.
Return values
json:
[
{
"id": "resource_id",
"album": "album name",
"filename": "original file name",
"type": "image mime type",
"thumb": "url to thumb sized image"
},
...
]
xml:
<photos type="array">
<photo id="resource_id"
album="album name"
filename="original file name"
type="image mime type">
"url to thumb sized image"
</photo>
...
</photos>
POST api/friendica/photo/create
Alias of api/friendica/photo/update
POST api/friendica/photo/update
Saves data for the scales 0-2 to database (see above for scale description). Call adds non-public entries to items table to enable authenticated contacts to comment/like the photo. Client should pay attention to the fact that updated access rights are not transferred to the contacts. i.e. public photos remain publicly visible if they have been commented/liked before setting visibility back to a limited group. Currently it is best to inform user that updating rights is not the right way to do this, and offer a solution to add photo as a new photo with the new rights instead.
Parameters
photo_id
(optional): if specified the photo with this id will be updatedmedia
(optional): image data as base64, only optional if photo_id is specified (new upload must have media)desc
(optional): description for the photo, updated when photo_id is specifiedalbum
: name of the album to be deleted (always necessary)album_new
(optional): can be used to change the album of a single photo if photo_id is specifiedallow_cid
/allow_gid
/deny_cid
/deny_gid
(optional):- on create: empty string or omitting = public photo, specify in format
<x><y><z>
for private photo - on update: keys need to be present with empty values for changing a private photo to public
- on create: empty string or omitting = public photo, specify in format
Return values
On success:
- new photo uploaded: JSON return with photo data (see GET api/friendica/photo)
- photo updated - changed photo data: JSON return with photo data (see GET api/friendica/photo)
- photo updated - changed info: JSON return
{"result": "updated", "message":"Image id 'xyz' has been updated."}
- photo updated - nothing changed: JSON return
{"result": "cancelled","message": "Nothing to update for image id 'xyz'."}
On error:
- 403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
- 400 BADREQUEST: "no albumname specified", "no media data submitted", "photo not available", "acl data invalid"
- 500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "image size exceeds PHP config settings, file was rejected by server", "image size exceeds Friendica Config setting (uploaded size: x)", "unable to process image data", "image upload failed", "unknown error - uploading photo failed, see Friendica log for more information", "unknown error - update photo entry in database failed", "unknown error - this error on uploading or updating a photo should never happen"
POST api/friendica/photo/delete
Deletes a single image with the specified id, is not reversible -> ensure that client is asking user for being sure to do this Sets item table entries for this photo to deleted = 1.
Parameters
photo_id
: id of the photo to be deleted
Return values
On success:
- JSON return
{
"result": "deleted",
"message": "photo with id 'xyz' has been deleted from server."
}
On error:
- 403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
- 400 BADREQUEST: "no photo_id specified", "photo not available"
- 500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "unknown error on deleting photo", "problem with deleting items occurred"
POST api/friendica/photoalbum/delete
Deletes all images with the specified album name, is not reversible -> ensure that client is asking user for being sure to do this.
Parameters
album
: name of the album to be deleted
Return values
On success:
- JSON return
{
"result": "deleted",
"message": "album 'xyz' with all containing photos has been deleted."
}
On error:
- 403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
- 400 BADREQUEST: "no albumname specified", "album not available"
- 500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "problem with deleting item occured", "unknown error - deleting from database failed"
POST api/friendica/photoalbum/update
Changes the album name to album_new for all photos in album.
Parameters
album
: name of the album to be updatedalbum_new
: new name of the album
Return values
On success:
- JSON return
{
"result": "updated",
"message":"album 'abc' with all containing photos has been renamed to 'xyz'."
}
On error:
- 403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
- 400 BADREQUEST: "no albumname specified", "no new albumname specified", "album not available"
- 500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "unknown error - updating in database failed"
GET api/friendica/profile/show
Returns the Profile data of the authenticated user.
Return values
On success: Array of:
global_dir
: URL of the global directory set in server settingsfriendica_owner
: user data of the authenticated userprofiles
: array of the profile data
On error: HTTP 403 Forbidden: when no authentication was provided HTTP 400 Bad Request: if given profile_id is not in the database or is not assigned to the authenticated user
General description of profile data in API returns:
- hide_friends: true if friends are hidden
- profile_photo
- profile_thumb
- publish: true if published on the server's local directory
- net_publish: true if published to global_dir
- fullname
- date_of_birth
- description
- xmpp
- homepage
- address
- locality
- region
- postal_code
- country
- pub_keywords
- custom_fields: list of public custom fields
POST api/friendica/statuses/:id/dislike
Marks the given status as disliked by this user
Path Parameter
id
: the status ID that is being marked
Return values
A Mastodon Status Entity
Example:
https://<server_name>/api/friendica/statuses/341/dislike
{
"id": "341",
"created_at": "2023-02-23T01:50:00.000Z",
"in_reply_to_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status": null,
"in_reply_to_account_id": null,
"sensitive": false,
"spoiler_text": "",
"visibility": "public",
"language": "en",
...
"account": {
"id": "8",
"username": "testuser2",
...
},
"media_attachments": [],
"mentions": [],
"tags": [],
"emojis": [],
"card": null,
"poll": null,
"friendica": {
"title": "",
"dislikes_count": 1
}
}
GET api/friendica/statuses/:id/disliked_by
Returns the list of accounts that have disliked the status as known by the current server
Path Parameter
id
: the status ID that is being marked
Return values
A list of Mastodon Account objects in the body and next/previous link headers in the header
Example:
https://<server_name>/api/friendica/statuses/341/disliked_by
[
{
"id": "6",
"username": "testuser1",
...
}
]
POST api/friendica/statuses/:id/undislike
Removes the dislike mark (if it exists) on this status for this user
Path Parameter
id
: the status ID that is being marked
Return values
A Mastodon Status Entity
Example:
https://<server_name>/api/friendica/statuses/341/dislike
{
"id": "341",
"created_at": "2023-02-23T01:50:00.000Z",
"in_reply_to_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status": null,
"in_reply_to_account_id": null,
"sensitive": false,
"spoiler_text": "",
"visibility": "public",
"language": "en",
...
"account": {
"id": "8",
"username": "testuser2",
...
},
"media_attachments": [],
"mentions": [],
"tags": [],
"emojis": [],
"card": null,
"poll": null,
"friendica": {
"title": "",
"dislikes_count": 0
}
}
Deprecated endpoints
- POST api/statuses/mediap